An astronaut captured an elusive glimpse of red lightning from space. NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick imaged the rare red sprite phenomenon from the International Space Station earlier in the year, ...

A flash of red light danced above Earth’s clouds, catching the eye of a passing astronaut. From her window aboard the International Space Station, Nichole “Vapour” Ayers snapped an image that is now ...

Sprites and jets are fleeting atmospheric phenomena, hard enough to witness, let alone photograph. But a new image from an observatory in Hawaii captures both a red sprite and a blue jet in the same ...

High-altitude lightning bursts called “sprites,” which are difficult to see with the human eye, explode in a burst of red above the more easily seen white flashes of a powerful thunderstorm over ...