A rare and extraordinary atmospheric phenomenon has been documented above the Himalayas, where over 100 red sprite lightning ...

Red sprites hover between 40 and 55 miles high. Up there, the air is thin, so electric fields can spark gigantic filaments ...

NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick captured a form of lightning known as "red sprites" in the upper atmosphere on June 3. These branching red flashes are a form of strange weather event known as ...

From the ISS, scientists are capturing rare lightning above storms that could impact radio, climate, and safety.

These are not animated characters but real atmospheric phenomena known as electrical discharges that occur high above thunderstorms. Scientists refer to them as "red sprites," named for their ...

The new phenomenon was named Green emissions from excited Oxygen in Sprite Tops — or GhOSTs, for short. The ghost’s green may stem from iron and nickel atoms present in the upper atmosphere at ...

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 ...

According to ESO, red sprites are a rare form of lightning very high in the Earth's atmosphere. Occurring between 30 and 55 miles high, in the troposphere layer of the atmosphere, the red lights ...

These events, which occur far above when lightning strikes in the lower atmosphere, are called sprites. They fall under the umbrella of transient luminous events (TLEs) and only in the past few ...

The red flashes appear high above the clouds in the mesosphere, the third layer of the atmosphere that’s directly above the stratosphere. The photo offers a rare glimpse of lightning sprites ...

Discovered within the last 20 years, sprites are discharges from lightning in the upper atmosphere, according to PetaPixel. Sprites can take on many different shapes when they form in the upper ...

If you’re ever lucky enough to spot the atmospheric drama of a red sprite, look closely, and you may catch a glimpse of green glow that speaks to Earth’s position in the solar system and sheds ...