"Thunder is impressive," Mark Twain wrote, "but it is lightning that does the work." Anyone who's watched a lightning storm will understand what he meant: Lightning is one of nature's most ...

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 massive bolt of lightning that flashed across the sky from Texas to Missouri has captured a new world record. The 515-mile bolt stretched from East Texas to near Kansas City, Mo., a roughly ...

In a recent milestone confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a truly gargantuan lightning flash has claimed the title of longest ever recorded. Scientists measured it at an ...

A lightning "megaflash" that zipped across five U.S. states has set a new record for the longest ever detected. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

A lightning megaflash that spanned 515 miles from Dallas to Kansas City, Missouri, has set a new world record for the longest bolt. The Oct. 22, 2017, lightning bolt was part of a large cluster of ...

Well, it's official. The single megaflash lighting bolt of 2017 was certified as the world’s longest flash on record. The lighting occurred on October 22, 2017, and the horizontal distance stretched ...

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 ...

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.

A massive bolt of lightning that flashed across the sky in Texas in 2017 has captured a new world record. Pictured, a separate lightning bolts shoots over Highway 360 near Euless, Texas on Friday, ...

This is a pretty cool one! We know that lightning can travel very far away from where it starts, even outside of the thunderstorms that they reside in, but The World Meteorological Organization ...