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

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

Where there’s lightning, a crash of thunder isn’t far behind. If a storm has passed and the sun has returned, it can make ...

In October 2017, lightning stretched across multiple Great Plains states, and a weather satellite captured the event ...

A single lightning bolt stretched across the Great Plains for an astonishing 515 miles, from eastern Texas to near Kansas City, setting a new world record and pushing the boundaries of what scientists ...

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

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

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

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

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

We’ve long understood the broad strokes of lightning, but the what kickstarts the process—and allows for some of its weirdest ...

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