Red sprite lightning is both mysterious and intriguing: sprites occur only at high altitudes above thunderstorms, only last for a thousandth of a second, ...

Amazing new photos and video of the elusive red lightning called sprites are helping researchers understand how the mysterious electric bursts form.

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 seen ...

Sunday night was an eventful one in the Valley as storms lit up the skies overhead, including an atmospheric phenomenon other than the numerous lightning strikes.

Caught On Camera: Picture Of Rare 'Red Sprite' Captured By Astronaut From ISS The image was captured by astronaut Andreas Mogensen using a high-resolution camera for the Thor-Davis experiment at ...

Sprite-chasers can target storms with a lot of positive lightning strokes to maximize their chances of catching sprites on camera, Ahrns says.