A super-sized lightning bolt struck scientists as something special.

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 lightning still holds the record for longest duration, at 17 seconds. Researchers hope that satellites “staring” — in geostationary orbit, that is — continuously at such hot spots ...

A lightning “mega-flash” over the US Great Plains region stretching 829 kilometres, or around 515 miles, has been identified as the longest on record. The flash spanned five states, ranging ...

In October 2017, lightning flashed across the sky in America’s heartland. But this wasn’t your average storm. The single, enormous bolt—known as a “megaflash”—stretched across multiple ...