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

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

The 515-mile bolt stretched from East Texas to near Kansas City, Mo., a roughly eight-hour distance by car, according to the ...

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

A lightning bolt that shot across the sky from East Texas to near Kansas City, Mo., during a 2017 thunderstorm has officially ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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