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

Sprites over Red Willow County, Nebraska, on August 12, 2013 Image courtesy of Jason Ahrns via Flickr Jason Ahrns, a graduate student at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, and other scientists ...

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

Red sprites are thought to be caused by a rare but intense form of lightning called positive lightning. Whereas most cloud-to-ground lightning has a negative electric charge, positive lightning ...

Something pretty crazy is happening in the skies way, way up above Hurricane Matthew. It’s called sprite lightning, and it’s the closest thing nature has to fireworks. Occasionally, in very ...