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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Elves and sprites are a form of atmospheric lightning, also known as transient luminous events. What are ‘Elves’? No, they are not the elves that work up at Santa’s workshop.

Sprites and ghosts occur in the mesosphere, the layer of Earth’s atmosphere that sits above the stratosphere and extends from about 31 to 53 miles (50 to 85 kilometers) above the ground.

Red sprites have been thought to have caused the crash of a weather balloon in 1989, which fell from a height of 120,000 feet after it passed over a thundercloud, crash-landing near Graham, Texas.

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 ...

Although they’re associated with thunderstorms, sprites don’t occur in the same clouds that produce rain in the lower part of the atmosphere. Instead, the sprites appear up to 50 miles (80 ...