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 ...

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 ...

Ball lightning and plasmoid phenomena have long captured the interest of both the scientific community and the general public due to their rare and enigmatic nature. Ball lightning is typically ...

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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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 ...

For many years, I served as a naval aircrewman on a P-3 Orion. The P-3 is a large four-engine turboprop maritime patrol aircraft that typically locates and tracks submarines and ships over vast ...

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 ...

The monks described it as a "fiery globe threw itself down into the river." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On June 7, 1195, a ...

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, ...