A bolt of lightning lasts only a fraction of a second, yet the narrow channel of air it passes through reaches roughly 50,000 ...

Watch as a powerful lightning strike lights up the sky in a spectacular weather display captured from the safety of a home.

"Heat lightning" is a common term for lightning seen from a distance without hearing the associated thunder.

A lightning megaflash that spanned 515 miles from Dallas to Kansas City, Missouri, has set a new world record for the longest bolt. The Oct. 22, 2017, lightning bolt was part of a large cluster of ...

Two storms in 2020 set two new records for lightning on Earth, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) announced today (Feb. 1). One record was for longest single bolt, a record captured by a ...

A single bolt of lightning measuring 477.2 miles has been confirmed as the longest ever – leaping across Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas in 2020, according to the World Meteorological Organization.