When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Colorful sprites, or transient luminous events, flash above clouds in a video taken by NASA ...

SPOKANE, Wash.-- Nighttime thunderstorms rumbled across the Inland Northwest early this week to the delight of many. Spectacular lightning displays came in all sorts of shapes, and all sorts of colors ...

Lightning has captured people's fascination for millennia. It's embedded in mythology, religion and popular culture. Think of ...

I and my family have seen colored lightning, and it was quite spectacular. What is the explanation? What causes it? —James Maso and family, East St. Louis, Ill. Dear James and family, There are at ...

Red spites, a type of transient luminous event or TLE, appear in the upper atmosphere above a thunderstorm in Oklahoma in April 2025. Photograph by Paul Smith Our atmosphere is like one big electrical ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured breathtaking video of a rare atmospheric phenomenon from his perch high above Earth on the International Space Station. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

These are bright, colorful flashes of light faster than lightning and are sometimes referred to as "sprites." Pettit was able to view the sprites from directly above, looking down at what is known as ...