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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Talk about a bolt from the blue. Scientists July 31 announced the discovery of the world's longest lightning flash ever detected – ...

A lightning bolt strikes the ocean near a lifeguard tower at Bolsa Chica State Beach in 2021. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) Coastal Southern California, which rarely sees lightning, witnessed ...

A massive bolt of lightning that flashed across the sky in Texas in 2017 has captured a new world record. Pictured, a separate lightning bolts shoots over Highway 360 near Euless, Texas on Friday, ...

An enormous, 515-mile-long flash of lightning that crossed at least three states has been named the longest in recorded history in the world. The 2017 “megaflash” stretched from eastern Texas to near ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Lightning has captured people's fascination for millennia. It's embedded in mythology, religion and popular culture. Think of ...