This is the dramatic moment a moving car was struck – by a bolt of lightning. Video captured last week (August 5) in Beihai, China shows the slow-moving vehicle being hit – while the drive is still ...

A security camera in north central Wisconsin captured the dramatic moment when a bolt of lightning struck a white pine tree on Sept. 9, causing a fire that prompted neighbors to spring into action. A ...

NASA Kennedy Space Center camera captures amazing lightning strikes near the Artemis 1 moon rocket. Credit: NASA Kennedy Space Center | mash mix by Space.com's Steve Spaleta Rain sound effect courtesy ...

Though scientists have long understood how lightning strikes, the precise atmospheric events that trigger it within thunderclouds have remained a perplexing mystery. The mystery may now be solved, ...

Living up to its name, University of Washington spin-off company ZAP Energy's Century system is developing fusion power technology by blasting plasma with super-lightning-like pulses 12 times per ...

APOPKA, Florida — One thing we don't get much of in Utah is lightning. Florida, though, that's another story. It's regarded as the "lightning capital" of the United States, given the frequency of ...

WALPOLE, MASS. (WHDH) - A lightning bolt left a Walpole family stunned and shaken. Brian Trupiano was putting his kids to bed around 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday when mother nature struck. “As soon as we went ...

WAYNE, N.J. (WPVI) -- Video captured the reaction of a startled delivery driver who was nearly struck by a bolt of lightning outside a house in Wayne, New Jersey. In the video, the delivery driver is ...

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has released new information about a remarkable discovery involving a record-breaking lightning strike that occurred in 2017. After a reanalysis of ...

A thunderstorm with cloud to ground lightning rages during the day in China on July 21, 2025. CREDIT: Photo by Liu Wei/Xinhua via Getty Images. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs ...