However, conducting the research for the study was challenging — and Wada said it required a bit of luck — as the study relied on being able to observe lightning bolts in action.

A bolt of lightning that stretched nearly 500 miles across three U.S. states has set a world record for longest flash. The single flash extended 477.2 miles across Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Lightning danced across the Pittsburgh skyline on Wednesday morning as a round of wet and severe weather hit the region. Tower Cam caught a particularly large bolt of ...

A bright flash and then a thick, billowing cloud of smoke. That's what a security camera captured when a bolt of lightning struck a parked, unoccupied Newcastle police cruiser during a storm. A ...

STATE CAMP, PEEKSKILL, N.Y., July 12. -- Lightning struck the Young Men's Christian Association tent in the State camp this afternoon. One man, a Corporal of the Twenty-second Regiment, was killed ...