A rare and extraordinary atmospheric phenomenon has been documented above the Himalayas, where over 100 red sprite lightning ...

When the sun heats the Earth’s surface, the warm air may rise and bump against cold, dry air above ... than sound. Lightning is caused by built-up electrical charges between clouds, the ...

Lightning also produces incredible sights in the space above the clouds, extending into the atmosphere in colors that we never see from a cloud-to-ground lightning bolt. A new image captured by ...

Colorful sprites, or transient luminous events, flash above clouds in a video taken by NASA ... These are bright, colorful flashes of light faster than lightning and are sometimes referred to ...

NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain were the latest to share images of lightning as seen from 250 miles above ...

Rather, this image shows lightning strikes on Earth, illuminating clouds at night as seen from above. "This is what lightning looks like from the top down," wrote Anne McClain, a NASA astronauts ...

Ahead of us clouds are boiling up like cauliflower ... over the mountains as if posed for a portrait, sparking lightning obediently above a distant ridge. Standing in the foreground on the ...

Lightning also prefers tall clouds that allow electrically charged ... moist air moving north from Siberia was lifted to higher altitudes, above the water and ice-cooled air in the lowest levels ...

A lightning flash and is all the cloud-to-ground lightning that occurs ... warm and moist air near the ground with cooler, drier air above it and a way to lift the warm moist air.

The spacecraft Juno took an epic image on its 31st flyby at around 19,900 miles (32,000 km) above Jupiter’s clouds. The light comes from crackling lightning near the planet’s north pole.

The images McClain and Ayers shared show electrostatic discharges – in other words, lightning – from above the clouds as they orbited in the International Space Station. In Ayers' post on X ...