NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers photographed a rare atmospheric phenomenon over the US and Mexico known as a "sprite" that's ...

Sprites “are transient luminous events” that “are triggered by intense electrical activity in the thunderstorms,” astronaut Nichole Ayers said ...

Scientists are working to understand the curious phenomena of red sprites, green ghosts and blue jets high above ...

They were set up to observe sprites and other unusual types of above-cloud lightning associated with Tropical Storm Cristobal on July 21, 2008. Instead, they saw the whopper gigantic jet.

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers has shared an incredible image of a sprite, a rare weather phenomenon that's triggered high above the clouds.

As the International Space Station whizzed over Mexico and the United States — before floodwaters catastrophically rose in ...

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured a rare image of a sprite lightning bolt over Mexico and the United States.

A video filmed in Canada appears to show a strange glowing blue-white orb oscillating as it slowly moved across a field. Ed and Melinda Pardy, weather enthusiasts from Alberta, Canada, were attempting ...

Lightning is a giant spark of electricity in the atmosphere between clouds, the air, or the ground. In the early stages of development, air acts as an insulator between the ...

The clouds of gases, steam and rock debris that rise above erupting volcanoes do, indeed, generate lightning. The closely studied 1963 eruption of Surtsey, a volcano in Iceland, produced a great ...

Scientists find lightning above clouds Short discharges critical for control of Earth's atmosphere, electric circuits By LEE BOWMAN , SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE June 25, 2003 ...