The lightning injuries occur just as the 25th annual National Lightning Safety Awareness Week kicks off on June 22.

Few things match the awe-inspiring power of a thunderstorm. With bright flashes of lightning and loud crashes of thunder, it's no surprise that humanity has built legends around this force of nature.

A stunning image captured by a NASA astronaut showing a red ‘sprite lightning’ above a thunderstorm is going viral again one ...

It came out of nowhere, the “ungodly” sound. A deafening roar, a blazing bright light, an earth-shaking jolt. And with that ...

Lightning kills ‌hundreds of people every year in ⁠Bangladesh, which ⁠declared lightning strikes a natural disaster in 2016.

Doctors Deliver Baby After Pregnant Mom Gets Struck By Lightning Like most nonfatal lightning strikes, the one outside the Aventura Mall in Florida was not a direct hit. The bolt of electricity struck ...

Since 2006, more than 500 people have been killed by lightning strikes in the U.S., according to the National Lightning Safety Council.

At least four people, including two 13-year-old boys, died in separate lightning strike incidents in Toba Tek Singh and Jhang ...

While the total number of strikes wasn't directly measured, the data on fatalities paints a grim picture of lightning ...