Scientists who study lightning say the more they can learn, the more society can work to protect people and property from ...

A New Jersey father says his son’s death after being struck by lightning on a golf course last summer never should have happened. The family of 28-year-old Simon Mariani, of Franklin Lakes, who was ...

Lightning is an essential part of nature—balancing Earth’s electrical charge by transferring negative energy back to the ground. But it can also be fatal.

Florida, the lightning capital of the United States, leads the nation in both the density of lightning strikes and deaths by lightning.