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 ...

Lightning flashes from a thunderstorm light up the landscape in eastern Brandenburg. (Photo by Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images) When thunder rumbles in the distance, there's a quick ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The National Weather Service issued a beach hazards statement for San Diego and Orange counties Tuesday morning, warning of high surf and the chance for thunderstorms in the ...

A super-sized lightning bolt struck scientists as something special. Now, researchers have confirmed that a lightning strike from 2017 has broken a world record. A single flash of lightning that ...

Getting hit by lightning is not usually a good thing. But one tropical tree species seems to harness heaven’s wrath. Not only do the trees survive lightning strikes, but their height and voluminous ...

A Castle Hills couple on vacation over the holiday weekend got a call in the middle of the night that their house was on fire. They returned to North Texas with just the clothes in their suitcases to ...

Lightning is often seen as a killer, leaving behind destruction and death of trees — but one tropical species has evolved to use the force of nature to its benefit. The tonka bean tree, scientifically ...