Red sprites have been thought to have caused the crash of a weather balloon in 1989, which fell from a height of 120,000 feet after it passed over a thundercloud, crash-landing near Graham, Texas.

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured an electrifying image of a giant lightning "sprite" shooting up over Mexico and southern U.S. states. The red "jellyfish" could help researchers learn more about ...

Mysterious "sprites" and "elves" dance high in the Earth's atmosphere — but these aren't mythical creatures, they're disks, globes and tendrils of light caused by lightning.

Vibrant Lightning Sprites Spark Above Hurricane Matthew A photographer’s good eye captures an elusive phenomenon. Erin Blakemore - Correspondent. October 3, 2016. Get our newsletter!

Flying above the U.S. Midwest, scientists using high-speed video cameras have caught the first 3-D images of sprites, elves, blue jets, and crawlers—in the form of lightning, that is.. First ...

Not much is known about red sprites, but they have been noted to occur under specific conditions. When a strong positive lightning strike occurs near the ground, a red sprite is generated 30 miles ...

Daria Dubrovin, a Ph.D. student at Tel Aviv University, says that lightning storms on planets like Jupiter, Saturn, and Mars may also produce "sprites," bursts of electric energy. In her lab ...

An astronaut captured an elusive glimpse of red lightning from space. NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick imaged the rare red sprite phenomenon from the International Space Station earlier in the year, ...

Have you ever heard of sprites before? Some new images could be some of the best examples of sprites in photographs. The sprites were associated with Hurricane Matthew. The photos were taken in ...

Have you ever heard of sprites before? Some new images could be some of the best examples of sprites in photographs. The sprites were associated with Hurricane Matthew. The photos were taken in ...