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

The ball lightning changed from purple to orange to white to red before it faded. The Chinese scientists detected traces of soil elements such as silicon, iron and calcium from the ball lightning.

Ball lightning is an odd phenomenon. The few, fortunate people who have seen an incident describe the lightning as a roughly spherical glowing object that travels horizontally for a few seconds ...

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.

Lightning lights up a thunderstorm with a purple hue. (Supplied: Jordan Cantelo)Lightning can come in many different colours, including yellow, brown, pink and red, depending on environmental factors.

Scientists are working to understand the curious phenomena of red sprites, green ghosts and blue jets high above ...

China: A freak ball of lightning has exploded at a farm in China killing 170 pigs and injuring a woman. Farmer's wife Jun Li, 48, was hurt when a rare lightning ball struck at the pig farm in ...

Fun fact: Planet Earth is a big electric circuit. A proton arc is a rarer form of aurora. All auroras happen when the sun shoots energetic particles at Earth's magnetic field.

Prior to this account, the earliest report of ball lightning from England is during a great thunderstorm in Widecombe in Devon on 21 October 1638. During this storm, four people were killed and 60 ...