As Hurricane Matthew intensified over the weekend near Colombia, a keen skywatcher in Puerto Rico caught a glimpse of an unusual type of lightning known as sprites. Oblivious to the fury of the storms ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Halloween is here and scientists at the Nation Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are claiming that elves and sprites are real. Halloween’s the time for all things ...

The UK's Royal Meteorological Society has revealed the winners of this year’s Standard Chartered Weather Photographer of the Year competition. The total number of submissions received this year was ...

They were once so elusive that scientists gave them a mystical name. “Red sprites” are short-lived, red flashes that occur about 80 kilometers (50 miles) up in the atmosphere. With long, vertical ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - Weather has a variety of unique types. Spider, Sprites, and Ball are types of one particular weather event. Do you know which one? Check out the question and find the answer ...

It’s one of the least understood phenomena in earth’s atmosphere, and now NASA is asking for your help to better understand it. They’re called ‘sprites’ and they are Transient Luminous Events or TLEs.