Using archival satellite data, researchers just officially confirmed the length of this enormous bolt of lightning that ...

Scientists July 31 announced the discovery of the world's longest lightning flash ever detected – a whopping 515-mile-long ...

A single flash of lightning that stretched across the Great Plains, from eastern Texas all the way to Kansas City, Missouri, ...

On Thursday, the World Meteorological Organization certified the record for the longest single lightning bolt ever measured ...

The NOAA maintains various types of equipment and methods to analyze global weather and predict likely outcomes, while ...

The iceberg has been closely monitored due to concerns that it may collide with South Georgia, "potentially threatening a delicate ecosystem," the NOAA warned.

The 515-mile bolt stretched from East Texas to near Kansas City, Mo., a roughly eight-hour distance by car, according to the ...

The record-setting lightning megaflash occurred on October 22, 2017, stretching approximately 829 kilometers, or 515 miles, ...

A new world record for the longest distance lightning flash was declared on Thursday — a megaflash that stretched for 829 ...

In 2023 and 2024, the hottest years on record, more than 78 million acres of forests burned around the globe. The fires sent ...