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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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, ...

Lightning is a familiar sight in stormy skies, but a new report has revealed just how far some bolts can travel — in one case ...