Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured a rare gigantic jet near the U.S.-Mexico border from the International Space Station on July ...

A rare phenomenon was caught on camera Wednesday morning by a photographer in Puerto Rico during a thunderstorm. Known as a gigantic jet, the phenomenon is a Transient Luminous Event (TLE) and appears ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Tennessee ranks 9th in the nation for lightning strikes, averaging nearly 2 million bolts each year. Related: First Alert Weather Day declared ahead of strong thunderstorm ...

Caused by an EMP, an ELVES event lasts for less than a thousandth of a second. This snap, from November 2025, shows the enormous phenomenon in one of the few shots ever captured from the ground.

VIENNA, Va. (WUSA) - In a rare event, firefighters said a townhome was struck twice during a storm. “Caller advises the house was struck by lightning and the house is filling with smoke,” a dispatcher ...

Inside a thunderstorm, warm air is forced upward in a strong updraft. As the air rises, ice and water particles collide inside the cloud, creating electrical charges. Those collisions build up ...