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 ...

A lightning flash that extended 515 miles from eastern Texas to near Kansas City, Missouri, in 2017 was recognized Thursday as a new world record. The flash — dubbed a "megaflash," or a single ...

A powerful lightning bolt strikes from a monsoon thunderstorm over Salt Lake City, Utah and the Wasatch mountain range. (Getty Images/mdesigner125) Two hunters died earlier this month in south-central ...

Two elk hunters found dead in a national forest in southern Colorado after a dayslong search appear to have died as a result of a lightning strike, a local coroner confirmed Monday. Andrew Porter and ...