Lightning strikes near the Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., on Monday. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images) They say lightning never strikes twice. But in recent days it ...

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, ...

Lightning is a powerful force, one seemingly capable of great destruction in the right circumstances. It announces itself with a searing flash, followed by a deep rumble heard for miles around.

What happens right before two arcs of lightning smash into each other? An invisible blast of radiation a million times more energetic than a lightning discharge is unleashed in the form of gamma rays, ...

When thunderstorms rolled across the Sierra Nevada in late July, officials warned that lightning could ignite wildfires in forested areas loaded with dry vegetation. Thousands of lightning bolts ...

Man's tale of being struck by lightning multiple times. — -- A South Carolina man who says he's been struck by lightning ten times compares the feeling to being zapped inside a microwave. "When ...