Lightning strikes sear clothing, scar skin, and deafen ears. A lot can happen in the three-thousandths of a second it takes for a lightning bolt to course through your body.

A lightning strike sparked the two-alarm fire that tore through a historic Catholic church in Maryland during a brutal heat wave earlier this week, Baltimore County fire officials confirmed. Crews ...

The electricity forms a “scar” in the surrounding soil and sends electric discharge through nearby rock, soil and sand, forming fulgurites, also known as “fossilized lightning.” ...