Astronauts captured a stunning and rare lightning event called "red sprites" from Earth orbit that could impact radio, ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. An astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) has snapped a picture of a rare and spectacular atmospheric ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Red spites, a type of transient luminous event or TLE, appear in the upper atmosphere above a thunderstorm in Oklahoma in April ...

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 ...

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, ...

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers, currently stationed on board the International Space Station, shared an incredible image of a sprite — a rare weather phenomenon that's triggered high above the clouds by ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. "This sprite appeared over one of the outer bands that was generating lots of lightning," Frankie Lucena, a photographer ...

A breathtaking photograph taken from the International Space Station (ISS) by NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers has captured one of Earth’s most elusive atmospheric phenomena: the red sprite. Snapped as ...

Sprites “are transient luminous events” that “are triggered by intense electrical activity in the thunderstorms,” astronaut Nichole Ayers said NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers, 36, captured a transient ...