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 astonishing bolt sparked to life in eastern ...

The salad on your plate may owe its existence to a thunderstorm. Many people are wary of lightning as a natural phenomenon. A ...

"Thunder is impressive," Mark Twain wrote, "but it is lightning that does the work." Anyone who's watched a lightning storm will understand what he meant: Lightning is one of nature's most ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KAKE) — A newly certified world record lightning bolt is now officially the longest ever recorded, and it passed right through Kansas. Barely! The World Meteorological Organization (WMO ...

Lightning ignited several small fires across Southern California on Saturday. A few fires were sparked on Saturday morning in the Angeles National Forest, prompting responses from firefighters at ...

A jaw-dropping 515-mile lightning bolt lit up the skies from Texas to Kansas City, smashing previous records and reshaping our understanding of extreme weather. Thanks to advanced satellite tech, ...

The collision of two lightning-bolts-in-the-making spawned an exceedingly brief but extremely energetic flash of gamma rays. This first-of-its-kind observation may help explain an origin of some of ...