This rare form of lightning may represent a stable configuration of a plasma of charged particles. If it does, it may help to solve the problem of confining a plasma within a thermonuclear reactor ...

Ball lightning is a mysterious phenomena that's been seen since the beginning of recorded history, but it's so rare most people put it in the category of folklore or pseudoscience. Hochul deploys ...

There’s also fork lightning which flows between a cloud and the ground. And even ball lightning. When lightning happens, it heats the air to around 10,000 °C. As the air heats so quickly it ...