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

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

In this particular event in 2022, researchers also spotted 16 rare secondary jets and the first-ever recorded case in Asia of ...

Scientists have revealed a hidden trigger of lightning that could resolve a centuries-old weather mystery. Earth is struck by ...

A quiet night in the Himalayas turned into something magical. High above Tibet, rare red flashes lit up the sky. These were ...

Ahead of us clouds are boiling up like cauliflower ... over the mountains as if posed for a portrait, sparking lightning obediently above a distant ridge. Standing in the foreground on the ...

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

A newly unveiled astronaut photo shows a "gigantic jet" shooting upward from a thunderstorm above Louisiana in November 2024.

In general, lightning starts after opposing electrical charges—positive and negative—are separated in clouds, resulting in a discharge that people see as lightning. In their study, which took ...