11 crazy facts about getting struck by lightning (and how to avoid it) More than just a bolt from the blue; welcome to the wild world of lightning strikes.

What are the different types of lightning? From ball lightning and blue jets to giant elves and sprites, thunderstorms have a lot more tricks up their sleeves than just thunder.

Lightning: How much do you know about this striking weather phenomenon? Lightning is more than just a stunning spectacle. Take our quiz to see how much you really know about this electrifying natural wonder.

WATCH: Tracking Lightning Strikes, From Space NOAA's new weather satellite is carrying the first lightning detector ever parked in orbit over Earth. It has sent back its first images of real-time lightning storms in the Western Hemisphere.

Apple might not kill the Lightning connector after all Lightning might live on.

11 crazy facts about getting struck by lightning (and how to avoid it) More than just a bolt from the blue; welcome to the wild world of lightning strikes.

High-Speed Camera Captures Amazing Downward And Upward Lightning Lightning. Most of us have seen or felt the often dramatic and sometimes terrifying gigantic bolts of electricity streaking through the sky during a thunderstorm.

A Single Lightning Bolt Killed 21 Cows in South Dakota Here’s a “very strong reminder of what lightning can do,” authorities say.

Here's What Happens When Lightning Strikes A Charging Tesla Tesla’s been pretty adamant for a while now that lightning is no unusual hazard to its all-electric Model S, any more so than lightning is a hazard to any regular car. But what looks to be a freak occurrence just captured on video shows that a bolt Read more ... from the sky can, indeed, at least screw up your Te…

LOOK: Electrifying map charts every lightning bolt If you live here, you're more likely to see lightning.