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

The GOES satellites are a major part of the puzzle, since they continuously monitor the sky. They also identified the longest ...

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

A single flash of lightning that stretched across the Great Plains, from eastern Texas all the way to Kansas City, Missouri, ...

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

When thunder rumbles in the distance, there's a quick and simple way to figure out how close the lightning actually struck ...

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

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

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 bolt stretching 515 miles (829 km) from eastern Texas to near Kansas City has set a terrifying new record as the ...

On Wednesday and Thursday, in only a 24-hour period, the Northstate was hit by 3,535 lightning strikes which then started 23 ...

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