The most distinct feature is a lightning strike near Panama City. This illuminates the clouds below. Above the strike is a ...

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 ...

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 ...

a lightning researcher at the Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science (ELKH EPSS) in Hungary, told Newsweek. "Red sprites are practically high altitude lightning which looks like this because ...

Space physicist Dr Burcu Kosar, who serves as the principal investigator for Spritacular, noted that the project hopes to pair just such accidental photographers of phenomena like red sprites ...

Per NASA, red sprites are a less understood phenomena ... lightning activity occurring in and below storms on Earth," the space agency wrote in a statement. Ariana is the assistant news editor ...