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

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

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

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 ...

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