Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) photographed “red sprites”—brief, luminous bursts that shoot up from thunderstorms into the upper atmosphere—while passing over the Texas-Mexico ...

A rare phenomenon was caught on camera Wednesday morning by a photographer in Puerto Rico during a thunderstorm. Known as a gigantic jet, the phenomenon is a Transient Luminous Event (TLE) and appears ...

"Gigantic jets appear when the turbulent conditions at towering thunderstorm tops allow for lightning to escape ... Ayers caught on camera was a gigantic jet or another TLE called a sprite. Sprites ...

With the threat of strong thunderstorms packing heavy downpours, frequent lightning and damaging wind gusts, the National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm watch for most of New Jersey.