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

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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Lightning is the most beautiful and dramatic demonstration of electricity in nature, yet its origin has long eluded a ...

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