Scientists are working to understand the curious phenomena of red sprites, green ghosts and blue jets high above ...

Red sprites hover between 40 and 55 miles high. Up there, the air is thin, so electric fields can spark gigantic filaments ...

Capital Weather Gang Phenomenal sunset boasts red sky, lightning and rainbows — all at once. Photos of a magnificent D.C.-area sunset and lightning that followed ...

A rare and extraordinary atmospheric phenomenon has been documented above the Himalayas, where over 100 red sprite lightning ...

Law enforcement officers are searching for answers after multiple people reported a ball of fire in the sky heading toward ...

In a stormy Hawaiian sky in July 2017, streaks of red and blue lightning seemed to meet above a bed of white light. Cameras on the Gemini North telescope at the Gemini Observatory in Mauna Kea ...

One night in May 2022, two astrophotographers camping near Lake Puma Yumco in Tibet caught something extraordinary on film: bursts of glowing red lightning dancing in the sky.

For a long time, red sprites seemed mythical. The rare form of lightning that appears as red streaks above storm clouds had been reported in the past, but there was little in the way of hard ...

Maluk tweeted three photos of the fiery red bolt, which appears to have shot out of the sky and then splintered across the horizon. Red lightning doesn’t exist in the literal sense, according to ...

Have you ever seen a giant red jellyfish light up the night sky for a split second? If you have, you’re not imagining things. You’ve just witnessed a lightning-like electrical discharge high ...