Astronaut Nichole Ayersaboard the International Space Station (ISS) recently captured a breathtaking view of a rare ...

A breathtaking image taken from the International Space Station is giving scientists and skywatchers a rare look at one of Earth's most elusive weather phenomena: a sprite lightning bolt. The photo, ...

Red sprites are formed due to large-scale electrical discharges generated high above thunderstorm clouds They are usually triggered by the discharges of positive lightning between an underlying ...

Super lucky a few weeks ago when shooting a timelapse of a lightning storm off the coast of South Africa. One of the frames in the timelapse had a red sprite. A rare event. My knowledge is pretty much ...

Giant red blobs, picket fences, upward branching carrots, and tentacled octopi - these are just a few of the phrases used to describe sprites - spectacular, eerie flashes of colored light high above ...

Do you know that lightning from a thunderstorm cloud not only hits the ground, but it also shoots upward into the stratosphere, in a phenomenon known as sprites? Photographer Paul M Smith does – and ...

The sprite appeared as a carrot-shaped flash of light The Armagh Observatory has captured a rare atmospheric phenomenon known as a 'sprite' on film. It is one of the very few observations of the ...