NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured an electrifying image of a giant lightning "sprite" shooting up over Mexico and ...

A rare and visually stunning electrical phenomenon lit up the skies over North America earlier this week, as NASA astronaut ...

Red lightning, also known as a "sprite", is an intriguing weather phenomenon associated with certain very intense thunderstorms. While an ordinary lightning flash extends downward from the clouds ...

Red sprites have been thought to have caused the crash of a weather balloon in 1989, which fell from a height of 120,000 feet after it passed over a thundercloud, crash-landing near Graham, Texas.

Mysterious ‘red lightning’ spotted over Himalayas is finally explained. Thunderstorms over Himalayas have potential to produce complex electrical discharges, researchers say.