A super-sized lightning bolt struck scientists as something special. Now, researchers have confirmed that a lightning strike from 2017 has broken a world record. A single flash of lightning that ...

Lightning is one of the most awe-inspiring atmospheric phenomenon, but there are some types of lightning that you have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A thunderstorm with cloud to ground lightning rages during the day in China on July 21, 2025. Thunderstorm safety often comes down ...

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 ...

They say lightning never strikes twice. But in recent days it seems to be striking again and again — to deadly effect. On Wednesday, the Norwegian Ski Federation announced that Olympic skier Audun ...

(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 ...

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 ...