Lightning is one of the greatest natural forces on our planet. New mapping tools are revealing just how big it is.

After further research, scientists were able to confirm that a single flash of lightning stretched horizontally across the sky for 515 miles from Texas to Missouri. This breaks the previous record for ...

The 2017 “megaflash” stretched from eastern Texas to near Kansas City — a distance that would take at least eight hours by ...

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 from Dallas to Kansas City in ...