Lightning from thunderstorms doesn’t just strike the ground. Sometimes it goes up, forming a rarely seen type of electrical discharge known as a "gigantic jet" that connects the top of the clouds to ...

A massive lightning bolt that erupted from a cloud over Oklahoma and struck the edge of space in 2018 may be one of the most powerful such bolts ever recorded. That’s according to a new study in the ...

One of the world's most expensive and elusive fighter jets has gone missing, and officials are asking the public for any information leading to its recovery. On Sunday afternoon, two F-35 II Lightning ...

The F-35 is a true quarterback of the skies due to its unsurpassed interconnectivity capabilities. The F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter jet fleet achieved a major milestone this month, after its ...

A Marine Corps pilot safely ejected from a fighter jet over North Charleston on Sunday afternoon and the search for his missing aircraft was focused on two lakes north of North Charleston, military ...

The crash of an F-35B Joint Strike Fighter aircraft in South Carolina over the weekend has raised numerous questions about what prompted the pilot to eject and how the $100 million warplane was able ...

Lighting strikes some 25 million times a year in the US, according to the National Weather Service, and kills an average of 47 people annually. Media Drum World via ZUMA Press SALINAS, Puerto Rico — ...

Few Cold War aircraft had stirred the imagination like the English Electric Lightning, a British interceptor that had been ...