A lightning "megaflash" that zipped across five U.S. states has set a new record for the longest ever detected.

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

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

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

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

A jaw-dropping 515-mile lightning bolt lit up the skies from Texas to Kansas City, smashing previous records and reshaping ...

An enormous, 515-mile-long flash of lightning that crossed at least three states has been named the longest in recorded ...

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

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

In October 2017, lightning stretched across multiple Great Plains states, and a weather satellite captured the event ...

A 515-mile lightning bolt, confirmed as the world's longest, rewrites records. Learn about this incredible megaflash event.

Though scientists have long understood how lightning strikes, the precise atmospheric events that trigger it within ...