Golfers at Gator Trace Golf Course in Fort Pierce, Florida, got a close-up look at the raw power of lightning, right on Hole 3. A lightning bolt struck the green during a storm on Friday afternoon, ...

For as long as people have watched storms roll across the sky, lightning has inspired awe and fear. You can see the flash and ...

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 ...

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

The event began with the approach of two opposing electrical discharges: a downward-propagating leader from a thundercloud and an upward leader emerging from a television transmission tower in ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Years later, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has officially confirmed the longest single lightning flash ever recorded, stemming from a powerful storm in June 2017.

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 ...