Lightning typically carries currents of tens of thousands of amperes and releases immense energy in a fraction of a second. However, researchers analyzing global lightning databases have identified ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wow. Last year's colossal eruption of the Hunga undersea volcano near Tonga produced the most intense lightning storm ever ...

When Tonga’s underwater Hunga Tonga volcano lost its temper in an eruption on January 15, 2022, it belched gobs of magma and exhaled clouds of ash and water vapor out of the ocean, triggering intense ...

An enormous, 515-mile-long flash of lightning that crossed at least three states has been named the longest in recorded history in the world. The 2017 “megaflash” stretched from eastern Texas to near ...