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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

The 2017 'megaflash' stretched from eastern Texas to near Kansas City, crossing at least three states in seven seconds, ...

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

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