Red sprites have been thought to have caused the crash of a weather balloon in 1989, which fell from a height of 120,000 feet after it passed over a thundercloud, crash-landing near Graham, Texas.

Blue sprites and elves have been detected twirling in the upper atmosphere of Jupiter by NASA's Juno mission. While it may sound like something out of a fantasy novel, sprites and elves are ...

A local photographer captured the elusive weather phenomenon known as a red sprite in meteorology. Super Doppler 10 meteorologist Ricky Matthews explains the phenomenon. Nearly $40,000 in ...

The Science Behind Red Sprite Lightning Red sprites are an enigmatic form of lightning that appears high in the atmosphere, between 40 to 55 miles above the Earth’s surface, far above ...

Every sprite recorded helps scientists piece together how energy travels through the atmosphere. It helps researchers understand lightning’s hidden impacts. For Ayers, the sprite was a surprise.

Sprites and ghosts occur in the mesosphere, the layer of Earth’s atmosphere that sits above the stratosphere and extends from about 31 to 53 miles (50 to 85 kilometers) above the ground.

While these sprites might look like something alien, they’re actually perfectly natural. Discovered within the last 20 years, sprites are discharges from lightning in the upper atmosphere ...

A NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) recently spotted some mysterious red lights glowing in Earth's upper atmosphere. Matthew Dominick, commander of NASA's SpaceX Crew-8 ...

Our atmosphere is like one big electrical circuit: Thunderstorms are the batteries that charge it up, and lightning is the current flowing through it. On the ground we see evidence of this circuit ...

It’s one of the least understood phenomena in earth’s atmosphere, and now NASA is asking for your help to better understand it. They’re called ‘sprites’ and they are Transient Luminous ...

Astronaut On ISS Captures Mysterious Blue Jet Sprite Lighting Up Earth's Atmosphere "The tops of this [upward directed lightning] are around 75-80km [47-50 miles], boarding on the fringes of space." ...

Sprites form in the mesosphere, a little-studied portion of atmosphere about 30 to 55 miles above the earth, too high for planes to fly and too low for satellites to orbit.