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

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

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 ...

Many in Central Florida witnessed a spectacular lightning show Monday night. As severe storms rolled through, some areas were ...

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 ...

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

Well, it's official. The single megaflash lighting bolt of 2017 was certified as the world’s longest flash on record. The ...

The 515-mile bolt stretched from East Texas to near Kansas City, Mo., a roughly eight-hour distance by car, according to the ...