More than 8,000 lightning strikes ripped through Washington and Oregon over the last 24 hours, causing a large number of fires to ignite in each state. As of 10:30 a.m., 8,199 lightning strikes were ...

SINGAPORE – Singapore logs one of the highest lightning strike rates in the world. On July 5, a man died after he was struck by lightning while paddleboarding in the waters off Pasir Ris Beach. An ...

A man was killed and three family members were injured Friday after a lightning strike at Fort Myers Beach, Florida. The Fort Myers Beach Fire Control District said in a statement that crews were ...

One person was killed and three others were injured when a group of Florida beachgoers was struck by lightning on Friday afternoon — with witnesses describing the terrifying moment as sounding like ...

Bystanders screamed as lightning hit the Eiffel Tower on Saturday night during a powerful thunderstorm. France has been hit particularly hard by the June heatwave, with authorities reporting a surge ...

Before he changed the way we understand lightning on Earth, Joseph Dwyer studied the weather in more cosmic settings. Using the sensors on NASA’s Wind satellite, orbiting a million miles away, he ...

Slide over, Jacob Kiplimo. The world’s fastest human in the half-marathon is still just that, but the Ugandan’s record time of 57 minutes, 20 seconds, was obliterated Sunday in Beijing by a 5-foot-5 ...

Rei Penber is the Deputy Lead Editor for GameRant's Anime and Manga team, originally from Kashmir and currently based in Beirut. He brings seven years of professional experience as a writer and editor ...

As spring approaches, we can expect more severe storms, which can bring deadly lightning strikes. While summer is the busiest season for storms, springtime brings greater activity as temperatures rise ...

Lightning long ago escaped the bounds of Earth’s atmosphere—scientists have already discovered lightning blazing through the skies of Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune. Now they think they’ve found it on ...