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

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

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

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.

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

High above the storm clouds, lightning powers gamma-ray flashes and ultraviolet 'elves' Peer-Reviewed Publication. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) ...

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 ...

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 bright blue spots are what lightning strikes look like, but the red phenomenon above the large blue spot is a brilliant 'red sprite' appearing briefly in the upper atmosphere. NASA ISS ...

Wildfires raging across the US and Canada recently were so huge they even spread to the sky, creating clouds that only appear above superhot heat sources. So-called ‘fire clouds’ are not ...