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

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

The World Meteorological Organization says a lightning bolt that was visible for some 515 miles from eastern Texas through ...

A lightning bolt that shot across the sky from East Texas to near Kansas City, Mo., during a 2017 thunderstorm has officially ...

A single flash of lightning that stretched across the Great Plains, from eastern Texas all the way to Kansas City, Missouri, ...

NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite detects around one million lightning flashes per day from its perch high above the Earth. It is the ...

Lightning is a familiar sight in stormy skies, but a new report has revealed just how far some bolts can travel — in one case ...

A University of Kansas team developed pioneering technology that helped detection gold formation inside the Large Hadron ...

A stroke of lighting that lasted more than 7 seconds and flashed across 829 kilometres is officially the longest ever ...

Lightning strikes kill 320 million trees yearly worldwide. This causes significant carbon emissions, almost matching ...

Golfers in Florida faced a real life 'Caddyshack' moment as a lightning bolt hit the green during a brutal storm. The golfers at Gator Trace Golf Course in Fort Pierce, Florida, experienced a close ...

A new report has analyzed public images of medals from the 16th Center of the Federal Security Service (FSB), Russia's ...