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

The 2017 “megaflash” stretched from eastern Texas to near Kansas City — a distance that would take at least eight hours by ...

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

Scientists using satellite data discovered a record-breaking lightning bolt that stretched 515 miles from Texas to Kansas ...

A single flash of lightning that stretched across the Great Plains, from eastern Texas all the way to Kansas City, Missouri, ...

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

The World Meteorological Organization reported that a megaflash has set a new world record for lightning discharge distance.

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

On Thursday, the World Meteorological Organization certified the record for the longest single lightning bolt ever measured ...

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

Lightning is one of the greatest natural forces on our planet. New mapping tools are revealing just how big it is.

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