The phenomenon associated with thunderstorms is called a Transient Luminous Event (TLE). The post Astronaut witnesses ...

Wang Xin has won the overall Standard Chartered Weather Photographer of the Year competition with an image of red sprite ...

NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick has photographed a rare red sprite, a type of upward-traveling lightning, from the ...

Davis Sentman, who worked as a professor of physics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, proposed the name "sprite" for the red lightning phenomenon. He said the term was "well suited to ...

From splash of red lightning to frosty pastureland to an ominous ocean storm, here are the winners of the Weather ...

They usually happen at the same time as powerful positive CG lightning strokes. They can extend up to 60 miles from the cloud top. Sprites are mostly red and usually last no more than a few ...

Dancing sprites ... a flickering flurry of red in the clouds. This form of transient luminous event is very occasionally seen in the upper atmosphere when thunderstorm lightning is raging below ...

We know, however, that they are made up of lightning that shoots ... From Earth, sprites are usually hidden behind thunderclouds so, for decades, the red bursts of light were relegated to the ...

In his latest on X, Dominick posted a picture of Egypt's capital city Cairo and the Mediterranean region. He managed to capture the glowing city which was illuminated with dreamy Moonlight, adding to ...

Halloween is here and scientists at the Nation Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are claiming that elves and ...