These occur during particularly powerful thunderstorms and travel upwards into the atmosphere, as opposed to normal lightning ...

Ball lightning is a mysterious phenomena that's been seen since the beginning of recorded history, but it's so rare most people put it in the category of folklore or pseudoscience. Voting ends in ...

These weren’t UFOs or camera glitches, though, they were red sprites, a rare form of upper-atmosphere lightning that flashes silently in the skies above powerful storms. 16 of the red sprites ...

There’s also fork lightning which flows between a cloud and the ground. And even ball lightning. When lightning happens, it heats the air to around 10,000 °C. As the air heats so quickly it ...

These occur during particularly powerful thunderstorms and travel upwards into the atmosphere, as opposed to normal lightning which travels downward to the surface of Earth. A rare red sprite ...

Astronaut photographs rare red lightning phenomenon from ISS Sprites like the ones Pettit captured on video occur much higher than regular lightning. Their name is an acronym, short for ...

OK, this is kind of out there and caters to your inner Uber-Geek. Nadir view of Transient Luminous Events (TLE ) or upper atmospheric lightning. This clip real time is about 6 seconds over the ...