High-altitude lightning bursts called “sprites,” which are difficult to see with the human eye, explode in a burst of red above the more easily seen white flashes of a powerful thunderstorm over ...

Amazing new photos and video of the elusive red lightning called sprites are helping researchers understand how the mysterious electric bursts form. Sprites last less than a second as they dance on ...

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 ...

Like a giant jellyfish floating through the atmosphere, "red sprites" hover above thunderstorms in two new photographs snapped from space. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A NASA astronaut drifting high above Earth recently managed to capture a rare phenomenon that scientists have been working to ...

Researchers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering have captured the best images ever produced of "sprites" -- mysterious flashes of light resembling giant undulating jellyfish that can ...

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) has snapped a picture of a rare and spectacular atmospheric phenomenon. NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick captured a form of lightning known as ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit is known for snapping stunning space imagery from the International Space Station (ISS), and his latest capture doesn't disappoint. In an X (formerly Twitter) post, Pettit ...

In a stormy Hawaiian sky in July 2017, streaks of red and blue lightning seemed to meet above a bed of white light. Cameras on the Gemini North telescope at the Gemini Observatory in Mauna Kea snapped ...

A new study has improved our understanding of a curious luminous phenomenon that happens 25 to 50 miles above thunderstorms. These spectacular phenomena, called sprites, are fireworks-like electrical ...