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

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

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

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

Guinness World Records may be the go-to organization for measuring the extent of (sometimes dubious) human achievement, but ...

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

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

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

A megaflash is a lightning discharge of very long distance and/or duration that satellites can detect. A reanalysis of a ...

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

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

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