Lightning has captured people's fascination for millennia. It's embedded in mythology, religion and popular culture. Think of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Talk about a bolt from the blue. Scientists July 31 announced the discovery of the world's longest lightning flash ever detected – ...

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 ...

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 ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

The National Lightning Detection Network counts all of the lightning flashes and strikes across the U.S. Some Michigan ...

Scientists have confirmed a new world record for the longest lightning flash in a thunderstorm complex, which hit the Great Plains 8 years ago this fall. The so-called megaflash lightning extended a ...

Talk about a bolt from the blue. Scientists July 31 announced the discovery of the world's longest lightning flash ever detected – a whopping 515-mile-long bolt that blasted across central U.S. skies ...