Ball lightning is a rare and little understood atmospheric phenomenon. An Alberta couple may have just caught the best ...

During a recent lightning storm, a couple from Canada caught a rare weather mystery on camera. Right from their porch, Ed and ...

Ball lightning usually moves parallel to the earth but can also travel vertically or remain nearly still. ... However, recent photos of this mysterious phenomenon disprove this hypothesis.

There’s an eerie and incredibly rare phenomenon witnessed by few that has long puzzled scientists: ball lightning. These flashes, which typically appear in the evenings during thunderstorms and ...

He says the next step is to use the theory to replicate ball lightning in the laboratory. That may still prove difficult, as it would require equipment capable of producing 100 million volts.

Ball lightning was spotted during a conventional thunderstorm. (Courtesy: iStockphoto/Storman) Researchers in China are the first to study ball lightning using high-resolution spectroscopy. Their ...

Some experts, such as John Jensenius, a retired lightning safety specialist with the National Weather Service, think it wasn’t the golf ball that got struck, but rather a tall pole in the ...

Some UFO sightings could be explained by ball lightning and other atmospheric phenomena, claims Australian astrophysicist Stephen Hughes. The scientist has made a detailed study of an unusual ...

Ball lightning usually moves parallel to the earth but can also travel vertically or remain nearly still. ... However, recent photos of this mysterious phenomenon disprove this hypothesis.