They’re not fairies, but their red sparks look magical. They don’t last long, but they can be as large as a town. They’re not difficult to capture on camera, but they’re still one of the ...

To the sci-fi minded, strange lights hovering above Earth can mean only one thing… And yet, when astronaut Matthew Dominick spotted eerie flashes of ... known as “red sprites” – strange ...

But placement isn't enough to untangle these strange, thready flashes of light. In the hope of gathering more data with which to study sprite lightning, NASA, Friends of NASA, Stanford University ...

New Jersey has had more than its fair share of colorful lights glowing in the night ... A rare type of lightning known as “red sprites” was seen flashing in the sky over the Atlantic Ocean ...

A cosmic flash of spooky red light has been spotted by a NASA astronaut floating high in the Earth's atmosphere. Red sprites happen over thunderstorm clouds, in the area known as the mesosphere.

A sprite, according to the American Meteorological Society, is usually a red flash of light that shoots upwards into the sky above thunderstorms. Sprites predominately happen when powerful ...

These mesmerizing, rare flashes of red light appeared during intense summer storms and were spotted by a few lucky photographers who happened to be looking up at just the right moment. Their ...