In a small lab at Penn State University, lightning may be happening on a scale smaller than a deck of cards. Victor Pasko, a ...

When Apollo 12, NASA's second lunar landing mission, launched from Kennedy Space Center, the space vehicle was struck by lightning— twice.

Inside a thunderstorm, warm air is forced upward in a strong updraft. As the air rises, ice and water particles collide inside the cloud, creating electrical charges. Those collisions build up ...

Adam Sherwinski teaches ciLiving host, Jaclyn Friedlander about lightning. This video explores how lightning forms, why it’s ...

On the evening of April 1, 2026, a line of storms moved through Abilene, bringing damaging wind gusts, large hail, a couple ...

Let’s talk about the science behind those bright flashes of lightning across the sky. Storm Clouds. Thunderstorm clouds have ...