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 ...

As a massive storm swept through central Alberta in early July, a couple stood on their porch watching bolts of lightning play across the cloudy skies. A particularly massive lightning strike hit ...

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 ...

For decades such unidentified flying objects have simply been dismissed as optical illusions or "swamp gas". Now science has no excuse. Mysterious ball lightning has been captured on scientific ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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