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.

Speeding around the Earth at 28,000 km/h, NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured an incredible view of a phenomenon known as a ...

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

This extraordinary event is known as a sprite — or “farfadet” in French — one of the rarest forms of Transient Luminous ...

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

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

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

Was it a cosmic jellyfish, a fleeting light trick, or something more outlandish? When NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers took a huge red sprite arcing over a North American storm from the International ...

U.S. Air Force Major and NASA astronaut Nichole Rhea Ayers made an extraordinary discovery while orbiting the Earth aboard the ...

Natural phenomena never cease to amaze people as they unfold. The advance in the study of this type of situation makes the ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed that the agency, Gavi, had “ignored the science” in immunizing children around the world.

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