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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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.

NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite detects around one million lightning flashes per day from its perch high above the Earth. It is the ...

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.