Lightning is one of the most powerful and captivating forces in nature. In this video, we count down the top 10 most ...

A perfectly timed photo shows New York’s One World Trade Center framed by two bolts of lightning striking the Hudson River in lower Manhattan. The image was captured by NYC-based photographer ...

This awesome video, shot on May 20 by physicist Ningyu Liu from the Florida Institute of Technology, records a bolt of lightning at 7,000 frames per second - which means it's slow enough for us to ...

Seek Shelter Indoors: The safest place to be during a lightning storm is inside a sturdy building. Get Inside a Vehicle: If you can't find a building, a car is a safe alternative. The metal frame of a ...

When the world’s longest lightning bolt struck over Oklahoma in 2007, it traveled about three-quarters of the length of the state, according to the World Meteorological Organization, which ...

A time-lapse image of lightning bolts from a thunderstorm near Mudanya in Turkey on June 16. ... but when I combined all the lightning bolts into a single frame, ...

The lightning struck just moments after the homeowners left to get lunch. The strike also left the home with three large holes in the roof and structural damage around the door frames, as seen in ...

Unlike standard lightning that bolts from ... stretching across 200,000 square kilometers and generating ultra-powerful positive lightning bolts. Researchers analyzed the footage frame by ...

What is it? "This is what lightning looks like from the top down," wrote Anne McClain, a NASA astronauts and Expedition 73 crew member, from aboard the International Space Station, in May 2025.