Lightning has always carried an air of mystery. We know it as the crackling force that splits the sky during storms, yet the ...

The scientific community long assumed that to understand how lightning works, one needed a ...

Lightning can strike up to 25 miles away from a storm and reach temperatures five times hotter than the sun. Meteorologist ...

"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 ...

A lightning bolt that shot across the sky from East Texas to near Kansas City, Mo., during a 2017 thunderstorm has officially been named the longest ever recorded on Earth. The bolt-a rare phenomenon ...

The numbers are out, and Texas once again topped the list for the most lightning strikes out of any state in the United ...

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 strikes south of Badger Mountain on Monday, Sept. 8, 2025, as seen from the parking garage at Kadlec Regional Medical Center in Richland. Courtesy Scott Butner A Richland-based photographer ...

The weather phenomenon — which also killed a dog — occurred in the Australian city of Perth on Thursday, Feb. 26, and also ...

A lightning bolt that shot across the sky from East Texas to near Kansas City, Mo., during a 2017 thunderstorm has officially been named the longest ever recorded on Earth. That distance beats the ...