Lightning has captured people's fascination for millennia. It's embedded in mythology, religion and popular culture. Think of Thor in Norse mythology or Indra in Hinduism.

For as long as people have watched storms roll across the sky, lightning has inspired awe and fear. You can see the flash and hear the thunder, but the true beginning of a lightning bolt has remained hidden deep inside clouds.

From the ISS, NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured rare purple lightning and mysterious upper-atmosphere flashes above massive storms, revealing a hidden electrical world few ever witness from Earth.

Residents in NSW have copped large hail and intense lightning as storms barrelled through the state, with more wild weather expected this weekend. The severe weather was widespread across much of northern and eastern NSW overnight, with intense hail and ...

Flashes of lightning and heavy rain were captured on video in Wise County, Texas, in the early hours of November 24, as a line of storms moved across North Texas. Footage by X user @chaser_anthony2 shows the stormy weather in a residential area. “Very ...

The United States has a new lightning champion. Oklahoma has dethroned Florida to become the nation's lightning capital, according to a new report released Jan. 5. With approximately 73 lightning flashes per square mile last year, Oklahoma displaced the ...

SAWS has warned Gauteng residents to take lightning storm warnings seriously after a number of people were fatally struck by lightning.