The powerful lightning bolt, also known as a megaflash, stretched 515 miles from eastern Texas to Kansas City, Mo. The ...

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

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

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

The lightning strike, which occurred over the southern U.S. in 2017, was found in a reanalysis of satellite and lightning ...

A lightning flash tore across the sky above the Great Plains, stretching across a staggering 515 miles (829 kilometers) from ...

"This new record clearly demonstrates the incredible power of the natural environment," professor Randall Cerveny said.

Lightning struck and set a world record. The flash occurred in 2017 and spanned from eastern Texas to near west-central ...

A lightning bolt that shot across the sky from East Texas to near Kansas City, Mo., during a 2017 thunderstorm has officially ...

A lightning​ flash that extended 515 miles from eastern Texas to near Kansas City, Missouri, in 2017 is recognized as being ...

The massive lightning flash spanned from Texas to near Kansas City, surpassing the previous record of 477 miles set in 2020.