Three photographers have captured high-definition images of ‘sprites,’ a phenomenon of flashing red lightning. Sprites are a natural event notoriously difficult to photograph clearly. To escape the ...

While leading a storm tour photography group in June, photographer Greg McCown captured a rare phenomenon in the sky when red sprites appeared above Windy Point on top of Mount Lemmon. While these ...

Stunning images of mysterious red lights appearing to fall from space have captured global attention, sparking widespread speculation online. Many social media users suggested these ghostly flashes ...

When a thunderstorm recently lit up the night sky, cameras captured towering red shapes that looked uncannily like glowing jellyfish hanging above the clouds. The images raced across social media, and ...

It is an eerie form of lightning often mistaken for UFOs, but now scientists believe they have identified what causes the flashes from sprites high in the Earth's atmosphere. Researchers have compared ...

Chinese photographer Dong Shuchang, who captured the red sprites, produced a slow motion close-up video of the rare sight on May 31.- SCREENSHOT FROM PAULOWNIA DONG SHUCHANG/WEIBO SINGAPORE: Blink and ...

Sprites — ghostly flashes of light that occur above some thunderstorms on Earth — may also illuminate other planets' atmospheres. Calculations suggest that sprites could occur on both Venus and ...

Mysterious red lights falling from space, initially thought to be alien signals, have been identified by scientists as red sprites. These rare upper-atmosphere lightning phenomena occur high above ...

Blink and you will miss it. A rare red lightning phenomenon illuminated the dark sky above Tibet over the weekend, setting social media on fire. Known as a red sprite, it is an electrical discharge ...