During a recent lightning storm, a couple from Canada caught a rare weather mystery on camera. Right from their porch, Ed and Melinda Pardy watched as a lightning bolt struck the land less than a ...

Ball lightning has mystified scientists and witnesses for centuries, appearing as glowing orbs during thunderstorms that seem to defy physics. While thousands of people report seeing these luminous ...

A flash of lightning. A thundering boom. And then a curious light floating through the air, illuminating the dark room, and bouncing off surfaces. “I was so terrified, I hid under my blanket,” says ...

MOLINE, Ill. — We're all familiar with lightning that goes from cloud to ground, ground to cloud, and cloud to cloud. The thin, step-like shaped bolt of electricity produces quite a bang as the air ...

I saw a 20-second security camera clip on Facebook of ball lightning. It came out of the sky, rolled, and “walked” around a parking lot as if alive, then disappeared. Scientists to this day do not ...

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Chinese researchers have done the seemingly impossible: observed and recorded an instance of ball lightning completely by accident. And it bodes well for a decade-old theory about the nature of the ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Giles Gasper, Professor in High Medieval History, ...

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On October 21, 1638, people were congregating at a church at Widecombe-in-the-Moor, in Devon, England, when a severe thunderstorm broke out. Witnesses described an 8-foot ball of fire hurtling through ...