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 ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Lightning is one of the most powerful and dangerous natural phenomena on Earth. A giant spark of static electricity, lightning serves as a type of “neutralizer” for electric charges ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KAKE) — A newly certified world record lightning bolt is now officially the longest ever recorded, and it passed right through Kansas. Barely! The World Meteorological Organization (WMO ...

A lightning bolt strikes the ocean near a lifeguard tower at Bolsa Chica State Beach in 2021. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) Coastal Southern California, which rarely sees lightning, witnessed ...

The collision of two lightning-bolts-in-the-making spawned an exceedingly brief but extremely energetic flash of gamma rays. This first-of-its-kind observation may help explain an origin of some of ...

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 ...