These eye-catching phenomena have long puzzled skygazers and scientists—until two amateur astronomers made a very serendipitous discovery.

Red sprites seen above the Himalayas reveal powerful storms, rare upper-atmosphere events, and atmospheric mysteries ...

It is one of the rarest atmospheric phenomena that occurs.Astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) have ...

A newly unveiled astronaut photo shows a "gigantic jet" shooting upward from a thunderstorm above Louisiana in November 2024.

Learn more about a massive show of red sprites in South Asia — an outburst that included over 100 individual flashes of red ...

On May 19, 2022, two astrophotographers set up near the sacred lake of Pumoyongcuo on the southern Tibetan Plateau captured a ...

Have you ever heard of—or even seen—red lightning? These are not animated characters but real atmospheric phenomena known as ...

Using this approach, they could determine the exact occurrence times of the sprites, and link them to their parent lightning discharges. Intense thunderstorm in NSW puts on a dazzling lightning ...

but it was not initially shared by NASA or any other space organization. However, photographer Frankie Lucena, who specializes in capturing giant lightning sprites, stumbled across photos of the ...

A newly unveiled photo captured by an astronaut on the International Space ... red lightning, which can be faintly seen in the new image. These additional discharges are very similar to "sprites ...