A meticulous weather photographer captured red “space lightning” that’s invisible to the naked eye as it occurred at least 30 ...

Red sprites are brief electrical discharges that occur high above powerful thunderstorms.

They look like electric jellyfish and were only recently discovered. If you're in the right place at the right time, you may ...

French photographer Florian Riu captured rare red sprites above the village of Montemaggiore in Corsica, an atmospheric ...

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Lighting “sprites” are bursts of electricity triggered by lightning discharges, common on Earth, and appear as bright reddish-orange flashes 30 to 55 miles (50 to 90 kilometers) above Earth’s surface.

As Tropical Storm Nicole moved toward Florida this week, some of its clouds went as far south as Puerto Rico. There, a photographer captured an elusive and strange phenomenon known as “sprite ...

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NASA astronaut Nichole ‘Vapor’ Ayers captured a spectacular image of a sprite, a rare form of lightning that shoots up from a thunderstorm. Ayers currently resides on board the International Space ...

NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick photographed rare red lightning sprites high above Earth’s upper atmosphere from the International Space Station (ISS). The lesser-seen red lights are an elusive form ...