NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured breathtaking video of a rare atmospheric phenomenon from his perch high above Earth on the ...

Two astrophotographers captured breathtaking video of over 105 red sprites over Tibet during a massive thunderstorm.

Imagine a Slushee composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit is known for snapping stunning space imagery from the International Space Station (ISS), and his ...

ghost lightning appears as faint, red or orange luminous shapes that flicker in the upper atmosphere. These shapes can resemble jellyfish or tendrils reaching towards space, adding to their ...

Earlier this month, he posted a short six-second video captured straight below the space station of flashes of upper atmospheric lightning. These flashes, called Transient Luminous Events (TLE ...

Weather on Jupiter may have some surprising similarities to Earth phenomena, but some things it does defy easy explanation.

Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly distributed in the upper atmosphere, against expectations of uniform mixing. Scientists found evidence for a complicated but apparently real ...

A bizarre hailstorm of icy “mushballs” — slushy mixtures of ammonia and water — has been confirmed on Jupiter, where intense ...

"Nadir view of Transient Luminous Events (TLE ) or upper atmospheric lightning." The video captures around six seconds of sprites over the Amazon basin. And it's not the first time these phenomena ...