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

It was one for the record books, a lightning flash that reached from eastern Texas to Kansas City. It happened back on Oct.

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

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

A lighting flash that spanned from East Texas to an area near Kansas City in 2017 is officially the longest lightning strike ...

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

The massive size of the megaflash, which touched ground in five states in 2017, was revealed by a new analysis of satellite ...

A single lightning bolt silently crossed three states in 2017. Years later, satellites finally uncovered its record-breaking 515-mile path across the sky.

A 2017 lightning megaflash spanning 515 miles was confirmed as the longest ever, thanks to new satellite tech that helps ...

Megaflash hot spots include the U.S. Midwest and southeastern South America, site of the previous record-holder, a 709-kilometer-long bolt over parts of Brazil and Argentina. That lightning still ...