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

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

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

A bolt of lightning that arced across the sky from Texas to Kansas in the fall of 2017 has officially smashed the record for ...

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

A new world record for the longest distance lightning flash was declared on Thursday — a megaflash that stretched for 829 ...

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

It was a single lightning flash that streaked across the Great Plains for 515 miles, from eastern Texas nearly all the way to ...

Megaflash hot spots include the U.S. Midwest and southeastern South America, site of the previous record-holder, a 709-kilometer-long bolt over parts of Brazil and Argentina. That lightning still ...

The record-breaking 'megaflash' took place during a thunderstorm in October 2017. It extended 515 miles from eastern Texas to ...

After a thunderstorm, holdover lightning fires can smolder for weeks. With a series of wet thunderstorms, it can take several days of dry and warm weather for these fires to become visible, the ...

A US Navy F-35 fighter jet crashed in central California Wednesday near Naval Air Station Lemoore, according to a Navy press ...