"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have long understood why lightning forms, but the atomic processes at the core of the phenomenon have remained largely a mystery—especially the strange mechanics behind terrestrial ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KAKE) — A newly certified world record lightning bolt is now officially the longest ever recorded, and it passed right through Kansas. Barely! The World Meteorological Organization (WMO ...

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 – ...