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Red electrical flashes that mysteriously hover above some thunderstorms have long puzzled scientists, but now, new research reveals how these alien-like atmospheric sprites form. Sprites form at ...

Flying above the U.S. Midwest, scientists using high-speed video cameras have caught the first 3-D images of sprites, elves, blue jets, and crawlers—in the form of lightning, that is. First seen by ...

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 ...

NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick said he was "super lucky a few weeks ago when shooting a timelapse of a lightning storm." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

A quiet night in the Himalayas turned into something magical. High above Tibet, rare red flashes lit up the sky. These were not ordinary lightning bolts but glowing red sprites. They appeared in May ...

A new study has lifted the lid on the behaviour of unusual electrical discharges known as red sprites. This striking form of lightning appears in the upper atmosphere, sitting above the thunderstorms ...