A record-breaking lightning megaflash, stretching 829 kilometres, stunned scientists after occurring during a thunderstorm ...

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A 515-mile lightning bolt, confirmed as the world's longest, rewrites records. Learn about this incredible megaflash event.

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An enormous, 515-mile-long flash of lightning that crossed at least three states has been named the longest in recorded ...

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers photographed a rare atmospheric phenomenon over the US and Mexico known as a "sprite" that's ...

Just days after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake, the 6th largest in recorded history, shook Russia, another powerful natural ...

Heat lightning is often the term used on a summer night when lightning is seen, but no thunder is heard. While this is a real ...

A Penn State-led research team has unraveled the long-standing mystery of how lightning begins inside thunderclouds. Their findings offer the first quantitative, physics-based explanation for ...

Eyewitnesses aboard the flight reported seeing near-continuous flashes of lightning outside their windows for more than 20 ...

Though scientists have long understood how lightning strikes, the precise atmospheric events that trigger it within ...

Ball lightning is a rare and little understood atmospheric phenomenon. An Alberta couple may have just caught the best evidence for it yet.