Those displays are familiar, but a whole host of other, weirder electrical phenomena occur, specifically in Earth's atmosphere — including a recent event astronauts photographed from space.

A team of Spanish researchers has made a high-speed recording of elves and sprites in storms, fleeting and luminous electric phenomena produced in the upper layers of the atmosphere. Their ...

Sprites are among the strangest, most striking and least known atmospheric phenomena. Essentially they are gigantic electrical sparks that dance between the tops of thunderstorms and the edge of ...

In early reporting, Portugal's grid operator REN was quoted as blaming the event on a rare phenomenon ... atmospheric vibration." These oscillations caused synchronization failures between the ...

Like regular lightning, red lightning is caused by a build-up of electrical charge in clouds ... Red lightning isn’t the only upper-atmosphere phenomenon that can be triggered by thunderstorms.

The pictures, taken with a Nikon-880 digital camera on a tripod, reveal what appear to be bright electrical phenomena flashing around the track of the shuttle's passage, but the photographer ...

A team of scientists in the United Kingdom measured the electrical fields near swarming honeybees and found that the insects can produce as much atmospheric ... as physical phenomena such as ...

The electrical effects of a thunderstorm are not confined just to high up in the atmosphere ... a close look at this mysterious meteorological phenomenon. At the Alikhanyan National Science ...

In early reporting, Portugal's grid operator REN was quoted as blaming the event on a rare phenomenon known as“induced atmospheric ... growing environmental and electrical stress, centralised ...

In early reporting, Portugal’s grid operator REN was quoted as blaming the event on a rare phenomenon known as “induced atmospheric ... failures between the electrical systems, leading to ...