On top of being massive, the jet also carried 100 times more electrical charge than a normal lightning bolt in a typical thunderstorm. Scientists believe the discharge may have been the most ...

When Lightning Strikes, So Do Gamma Rays. On January 30, 2023, at 01:13 AM local time, lightning struck Tower 1. A downward ...

EXPERTS have spotted a colossal 'lightning bolt' shoot across the Sun. The discharge is thought to be a staggering 300,000 miles long. That's a lot bigger than any kind of lightning we get here on ...

Scattered showers and lightning strikes forced the closure of multiple beaches and put much of Los Angeles County under a ...

He's the lead author on a new study that examines the mysterious relationship between TGFs and lightning bolts — and, ...

Earth is struck by some 44 bolts of lightning each second, on average. Despite this, physicists have long been unsure exactly how most flashes get started. It is well-established that lightning ...

A megaflash lightning strike is an unusually long lightning bolt that stretches at least 62 miles. These aren’t your typical lightning strikes from an ordinary thunderstorm. Instead, they form ...