It's a "transient luminous event" or TLE that happens above the clouds, in the mesosphere, when there is intense electrical activity from thunderstorms below the clouds.

The skies overhead are already teeming with satellites. But their orbiting numbers will skyrocket in the near future as the ...

Fan response online was mixed – but only in that some called for Gardner to be arrested, some called for people to 'beat the ...

Parts of Alberta witnessed a spectacle early Friday morning as rare noctilucent clouds, also known as night-shining clouds, lit up the sky. These unique clouds are only visible on summer nights in ...

Their Latin name means "night shining" and the clouds usually appear as streaks of blue or silver. The Met Office describes ...

A Met Office video explains seven rare cloud types - including noctilucent clouds as they’re sighted in the UK.

NASA recently captured a light phenomenon known as an “atmospheric sprite” over Mexican territory, near the border with the United States.

A Met Office video explains seven rare cloud types - including noctilucent clouds as they’re sighted in Edinburgh.

While they are referred to as upper atmospheric lightning, the only thing red sprites have in common with the typical form of lightning we see is the movement of electric charge from one part of the ...

Red sprites are among a class of enigmatic weather phenomena that appear over thunderstorms, known as Transient Luminous ...

A sudden burst of red light flickered above a thunderstorm, and for a brief moment, Earth’s upper atmosphere revealed one of ...

A Met Office video explains seven rare cloud types - including noctilucent clouds as they’re sighted in the UK.