BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - A new record has been confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization for the world’s longest lightning bolt, breaking a previous record set by a bolt that flashed across ...

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 ...

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 ...

New high-speed footage settles a controversy over how electric charges make the connection that leads to bolts of lightning. Photo by Pete Hunt via Flickr under CC BY-NC 2.0 Lightning bolts are ...

Heat lightning is the nickname given to the silent lightning strikes and faint flashes of light that are visible on the distant horizon on some warm, humid summer nights. To the naked eye, these ...

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. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access ...