Lightning is a familiar sight in stormy skies, but a new report has revealed just how far some bolts can travel — in one case, more than 500 miles. That astonishing bolt sparked to life in eastern ...

A super-sized lightning bolt struck scientists as something special. Now, researchers have confirmed that a lightning strike from 2017 has broken a world record. A single flash of lightning that ...

A powerful lightning bolt strikes from a monsoon thunderstorm over Salt Lake City, Utah and the Wasatch mountain range. (Getty Images/mdesigner125) Two hunters died earlier this month in south-central ...

An enormous, 515-mile-long flash of lightning that crossed at least three states has been named the longest in recorded history in the world. The 2017 “megaflash” stretched from eastern Texas to near ...

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WICHITA, Kan. (KAKE) — A newly certified world record lightning bolt is now officially the longest ever recorded, and it passed right through Kansas. Barely! The World Meteorological Organization (WMO ...

Sometimes lightning bolts can stretch hundreds of miles horizontally. A new study reveals the conditions that underpin these megaflashes. Credit: Patrick Pleul ...

Wild video captured the moment a gamer was struck by lightning while livestreaming from inside his North Carolina home last week. The Twitch streamer, aptly known as “Chrispymate,” was recording from ...