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

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

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

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

The 2017 “megaflash” stretched from eastern Texas to near Kansas City — a distance that would take at least eight hours by ...

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

A single lightning bolt silently crossed three states in 2017. Years later, satellites finally uncovered its record-breaking ...

The World Meteorological Organization certified the record observed with advanced satellite technology from the National ...

In a flash, a single lightning bolt lit up the sky across three states in the Great Plains. On Thursday, after careful ...

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

Scientists using satellite data discovered a record-breaking lightning bolt that stretched 515 miles from Texas to Kansas ...

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