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

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

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

The lightning strike, which occurred over the southern U.S. in 2017, was found in a reanalysis of satellite and lightning ...

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

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 ...

Golfers at Gator Trace Golf Course in Fort Pierce, Florida, got a close-up look at the raw power of lightning, right on Hole 3. A lightning bolt struck the green during a storm on Friday afternoon, ...