These brilliant strands of red light surge outbound from the tops of clouds towards space when thunderstorms emit lightning. “[Sprites] can reach 50-60 miles into space and penetrate downward ...

If you've ever looked up during a thunderstorm and glimpsed a red jellyfish sitting high in the sky, you weren't hallucinating. These tentacle-like spurts of red lightning are called sprites.

Sprites and jets are fleeting atmospheric phenomena, hard enough to witness, let alone photograph. But a new image from an observatory in Hawaii captures both a red sprite and a blue jet in the ...

Astronauts in the International Space Station captured this stunning photo of a rare 'red sprite' over the Earth. The shot, taken on August 10, shows lightning and thunderstorms just over southern ...

The red glowing light was actually a sudden flash of a weather phenomenon called 'red sprite' lightning. Red sprites are said to flash above thunderclouds in the upper atmosphere, known as the ...