The massive lightning bolt — stretching 515 miles — struck on Oct. 22, 2017, and extended from eastern Texas to Kansas City ...

In a flash, a single lightning bolt lit up the sky across three states in the Great Plains. On Thursday, after careful ...

Scientists July 31 announced the discovery of the world's longest lightning flash ever detected – a whopping 515-mile-long ...

An enormous, 515-mile-long flash of lightning that crossed at least three states has been named the longest in recorded ...

Using archival satellite data, researchers just officially confirmed the length of this enormous bolt of lightning that ...

Lightning is a familiar sight in stormy skies, but a new report has revealed just how far some bolts can travel — in one case ...

NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite detects around one million lightning flashes per day from its perch high above the Earth. It is the ...

Though scientists have long understood how lightning strikes, the precise atmospheric events that trigger it within ...

"This new record clearly demonstrates the incredible power of the natural environment," professor Randall Cerveny said.

A 2017 lightning “megaflash” stretching from North Texas to Missouri was about 515 miles long, as confirmed by satellite and ...

A lighting flash that spanned from East Texas to an area near Kansas City in 2017 is officially the longest lightning strike ...

A lightning "megaflash" that zipped across five U.S. states has set a new record for the longest ever detected.