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 – ...

Lightning has captured people's fascination for millennia. It's embedded in mythology, religion and popular culture. Think of ...

For as long as people have watched storms roll across the sky, lightning has inspired awe and fear. You can see the flash and ...

A megaflash lightning has set the record for being the longest lightning ever recorded in the world. The megaflash traveled over 500 miles, roughly the distance from Washington D.C. to Detroit. The ...

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 ...

The United States has a new lightning champion. Oklahoma has dethroned Florida to become the nation's lightning capital, ...