An astronomer recently captured one of the most detailed-ever shots of a rare type of upward-shooting red lightning, known as a sprite, which briefly hovered in the air like a gigantic jellyfish ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto.

Column-shaped red sprites in a photo snapped Aug. 12, 2013 above Red Willow County, Neb. Amazing new photos and video of the elusive red lightning called sprites are helping researchers understand ...

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 ...

TULSA, Okla. — Sprites are a rare occurrence but have been observed high above Oklahoma. With severe spring season starting soon, the amount of lightning will increase, and sprites are directly ...

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 ...

"This sprite appeared over one of the outer bands that was generating lots of lightning," Frankie Lucena, a photographer based in Puerto Rico, told SpaceWeather.com. "By the way, the outer bands ...

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 ...

"By analyzing the parent lightning discharges, we discovered that the sprites were triggered by high-peak current positive cloud-to-ground lightning strikes within a massive mesoscale convective ...

These are bright, colorful flashes of light faster than lightning and are sometimes referred to as "sprites." Pettit was able to view the sprites from directly above, looking down at what is known ...

In an X (formerly Twitter) post, Pettit shared footage of rare "sprite lightning" illuminating Earth's clouds from below. It's one of only a few times an astronaut has filmed or photographed ...