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 ...

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 ...

A lightning bolt that traveled an astonishing 515 miles across the skies from eastern Texas to Kansas City, Missouri, has set a new record for the longest recorded lightning strike. The bolt, which ...

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has released new information about a remarkable discovery involving a record-breaking lightning strike that occurred in 2017. After a reanalysis of ...

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A lightning "megaflash" that zipped across five U.S. states has set a new record for the longest ever detected. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

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 ...