An Alaska Airlines flight headed from Juneau to Sitka on Monday morning was struck by lightning just before landing.

Yes, lightning can be frightening when it strikes during a storm, particularly when that crack of thunder comes right after, an indication that it was close by. But the photos that sometimes emerge ...

A mother filmed her 12-year-old son standing outside during a heavy storm, joking under an umbrella in their backyard.

A lightning bolt strikes the ocean near a lifeguard tower at Bolsa Chica State Beach in 2021. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) Coastal Southern California, which rarely sees lightning, witnessed ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The skies over the homes in Kansas City on Thursday were filled with dark, brooding storm clouds that threatened to unleash a deluge of rain at any moment. Jordan Frederick captured ...

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 ...

Scientists used data from NASA's Perseverance rover to find tiny lightning bolts on Mars that could scour biosignatures off ...

An enormous, 515-mile-long flash of lightning that crossed at least three states has been named the longest in recorded history in the world. The 2017 “megaflash” stretched from eastern Texas to near ...

David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. Pogue hosts the CBS News podcast "Unsung Science." He's also a New York Times ...

The Lightning on Thursday—in partnership with the NHL and Fanatics—revealed the design for their 2026 Navy Federal Credit ...