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A single lightning bolt stretched across the Great Plains for an astonishing 515 miles, from eastern Texas to near Kansas City, setting a new world record and pushing the boundaries of what scientists ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - A new record has been confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization for the world’s longest lightning bolt, breaking a previous record set by a bolt that flashed across ...

(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 ...

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 ...

A massive bolt of lightning that flashed across the sky from Texas to Missouri has captured a new world record. The 515-mile bolt stretched from East Texas to near Kansas City, Mo., a roughly ...

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 ...