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 ...

Here’s how it works. Sprites are reddish, ultrafast bursts of electricity that are born near the edge of space, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) up in the atmosphere. For a long time, pilots ...

Orbiting above a storm recently, International Space Station astronauts captured a rarely seen type of sky show on camera: a fleeting electrical burst called a red sprite. And not just any sprite.

It's one of only a few times an astronaut has filmed or photographed sprites from space. The ISS was passing over South America when Pettit captured the footage. It's unclear whether Pettit was ...

What are blue jets, elves and sprites? The electrifying effects of storms can be seen from the International Space Station really clearly. Yet when lightning strikes downward, something very ...