NASA astronaut Don Pettit is known for snapping stunning space imagery from the International Space Station (ISS), and his ...

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

In 2024, NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick caught a glimpse at one of the most elusive atmospheric phenomena known as red ...

A chance encounter with red sprite lightning won Angel An and Shuchang Dong the Skyscapes category of the 2023 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, hosted by the Royal Observatory ...

(Image Credit: Angel An) Researchers are starting to reveal the science of red sprites. No, not the supernatural spirits that flit through fairytales, but the bursts of rare red lightning that flicker ...

Some of these storms' rarest skyward stunners fall into a category called "sprite lightning," also known as "sprite fireworks." From afar, this oddball lightning looks like a streak of red in a ...