For centuries, witnesses have described luminous spheres appearing during or after thunderstorms. The reported objects may hover, drift, pass near buildings and vanish quietly or with a sharp sound, ...

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A growing body of research into laser-guided lightning and satellite-based wildfire monitoring is fueling interest in whether emerging technology can actually redirect electrical discharges before ...

A picture portraying a UFO flying. A crack of lightning, a burst of heat, and suddenly a glowing sphere hangs in the sky like a craft from another world. Scientists now say this is not fantasy or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As so often happens in science, when Andrea Stöllner's experiments didn't work as expected, they led her to something even more ...

Just beneath the surface of the south Pacific Ocean lies the Hunga volcano. Part of the Tonga archipelago and north of Tonga’s main island Tongatapu, Hunga lies in a very active seismic zone and has ...

Lightning flashes streak across the sky in the German countryside. One large flash is mostly horizontal, another one is vertical. Sometimes lightning bolts can stretch hundreds of miles horizontally.

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - This episode is about lightning. We will use a balloon and a CFL lightbulb to explore static electricity. Static electricity is the movement of electrons between two objects, just ...

Chronic curiosity led Benjamin Franklin to fly a kite into a thunderstorm-he got a mild shock and proof that lightning is electrical. A year later, a Russian professor tried the experiment and was ...

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 ...