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 ...

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 ...

A single lighting bolt along a South Carolina beach struck nearly two dozen people on June 24, including 12 children, local officials confirmed. Twenty people were struck by the lightning bolt near ...

It lit up the Long Island sky. A 10-mile long bolt of lightning caused quite a spectacle when it appeared in the sky over Bayport, Long Island Wednesday night. The natural wonder illuminated the sky ...

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 ...

Lightning flashes streak across the sky in the German countryside. One large flash is mostly horizontal, another one is vertical. Sometimes lightning bolts can stretch hundreds of miles horizontally.

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A security camera in north central Wisconsin captured the dramatic moment when a bolt of lightning struck a white pine tree on Sept. 9, causing a fire that prompted neighbors to spring into action. A ...

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 ...

A bright flash and then a thick, billowing cloud of smoke. That's what a security camera captured when a bolt of lightning struck a parked, unoccupied Newcastle police cruiser during a storm. A ...