Watch as powerful lightning streaks across the sky during a fierce nighttime thunderstorm in St. Petersburg, Florida, where ...

Thunderstorms have long been the biggest problem technology faces, but are they still so dangerous that you need to unplug ...

We all know that thunderstorms can unleash incredible bursts of electricity in the form of lightning, but you may not have known that thunderstorms also generate invisible bursts of gamma radiation ...

Hurricane Melissa weakened slightly, but it was still a powerful Category 4 after making landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 28, as the strongest-ever storm to directly hit the Caribbean ...

A flash flood warning brought heavy rain and fierce lightning across the Metroplex on Thursday night. Multiple roads in the DFW area had to be closed to protect drivers from standing water, and severe ...

Powerful thunderstorms rattled through Oahu, sparking dangerous conditions and causing traffic nightmares.

On top of a Swiss mountain, a car-sized laser has helped guide lightning from the sky to the ground. Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter for 10 years. During that time, it has studied the huge storms on the planet, such as the Great Red Spot, which is larger than Earth. New data shows ...

Jupiter’s storms aren’t just gigantic — they may unleash lightning far more powerful than anything on Earth. Using NASA’s Juno spacecraft, scientists discovered that some lightning bolts on the gas ...