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

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured breathtaking video of a rare atmospheric phenomenon from his perch high above Earth on the International Space Station.

Without these reference points, Lu’s team could not match the sprites to their parent lightning discharges. They came up with a creative workaround: While they didn’t know exactly when the ...

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 ...

"Nadir view of Transient Luminous Events (TLE ) or upper atmospheric lightning." The video captures around six seconds of sprites over the Amazon basin. And it's not the first time these phenomena ...