(CNN) — 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

A 515-mile-long lightning flash from Texas to Missouri in 2017 has been named the world’s longest electrical bolt thanks to U.S. satellite imagery displacing a past record-holder as climate change ...

Everything is bigger in Texas, including lightning strikes. Scientists with the World Meteorological Organization have finally determined that a 2017 lightning bolt beginning in North Texas broke the ...

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. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access ...