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 ...
Talk about a bolt from the blue. Scientists July 31 announced the discovery of the world's longest lightning flash ever detected – a whopping 515-mile-long bolt that blasted across central U.S. skies ...
“This explains why these gamma-ray flashes can emerge from source regions that appear optically dim and radio silent.” This finding unites lightning and TGFs under the same physical process, offering ...