NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore has captured an image of a blue jet sprite in the Earth's atmosphere, a rare phenomenon only confirmed in recent years. Astronaut and keen astrophotographer Don Pettit ...

It is one of the rarest atmospheric phenomena that occurs.Astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) have ...

These eye-catching phenomena have long puzzled skygazers and scientists—until two amateur astronomers made a very serendipitous discovery.

but it was not initially shared by NASA or any other space organization. However, photographer Frankie Lucena, who specializes in capturing giant lightning sprites, stumbled across photos of the ...

On the night of 19 May 2022, two astrophotographers located near Pumoyongcuo Lake in Tibet captured the spectacular display of "red sprites” – an atmospheric phenomenon named after their ...

In the hope of gathering more data with which to study sprite lightning, NASA, Friends of NASA, Stanford University, and other research organizations have asked citizen scientists to contribute ...