Have you ever heard of—or even seen—red lightning? These are not animated characters but real atmospheric phenomena known as ...

Red sprites seen above the Himalayas reveal powerful storms, rare upper-atmosphere events, and atmospheric mysteries ...

Learn more about a massive show of red sprites in South Asia — an outburst that included over 100 individual flashes of red ...

In a nutshell Photographers in Tibet captured 105 red sprites above a single thunderstorm in South Asia—the highest number ...

They look like glowing red jellyfish in the sky. Now, imagine seeing these rare lights over the tallest mountains on ...

Rare red flashes, known as 'red sprites', illuminated the Himalayan sky in May 2022, astonishing both astrophotographers and ...

A strange “red lightning” phenomenon photographed from near a lake site in the southern Tibetan plateau in 2022 was driven by ...

We still don't fully understand what triggers lightning. A new study suggests that showers of cosmic rays may be the missing ...

The almendro tree may have evolved to attract lightning, which helps clear more space for it to grow, according to new ...

Being struck by lightning is something humans generally try to avoid. But for at least one tropical tree species, this ...

These were electrical discharges that produced vivid red flashes high above thunderstorms ... peak current” positive cloud-to-ground lightning strikes within a massive convective system spanning ...