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

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

A European Space Agency (ESA)astronaut recently photographed an uncommon occurrence termed a red sprite. Astronaut Andreas Mogensen captured these images using a high-resolution camera for the ...

Chasing Lightning “Tim Samaras has a storm in his headlights and the world’s fastest high-resolution camera in the trailer behind. Can it catch lightning in the act?

A red sprite is an example of a remarkable weather event known as a Transient Luminous Event (TLE). It's also sometimes referred to as red lightning, and takes place above thunderclouds that are ...

16 of the red sprites exhibited what scientists call “secondary jets.” These are intense lightning outbursts stretching even higher toward space.

On the night of May 19, 2022, two Chinese astrophotographers, Angel An and Shuchang Dong, captured a spectacular display of over one hundred red sprites over the Himalayas. The observation site ...

According to Los Alamos, BIMAP-3D "provides an unprecedented capability in high-resolution, 3D lightning source mapping and source polarization detection for detailed study of lightning discharge ...

Monsoon moisture sweeps through the Southern California region 02:39. Temperatures continue to rise this week and mix that with thunderstorms and the potential of dry lightning, a Red Flag Warning ...

Based on the analysis, scientists found that the sprites were triggered by a “high-peak current” positive cloud-to-ground lightning strikes within a massive convective system spanning a cloud ...