While leading a storm tour photography group in June, photographer Greg McCown captured a rare phenomenon in the sky when red sprites appeared above Windy Point on top of Mount Lemmon. While these ...

Thunderstorms can produce impressive displays of lightning, but one of the most spectacular and mysterious is the red sprite. Every day, the Earth and its atmosphere exchange trillions of volts of ...

“Just. Wow.” So said NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers as she caught sight of a phenomenon known as a sprite from the International Space Station (ISS) 250 miles above Earth. Ayers shared an image on her X ...

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 in the ...

New Jersey has had more than its fair share of colorful lights glowing in the night sky during recent weeks and months — some mysterious and some easily explained. Here’s a new one. And although it’s ...