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

Red sprites are electrical phenomena happening in the mesosphere. The color is caused by electric charges interacting with ...

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

This video shows how the tendrils of a cucumber coil. The cucumber plant uses tendrils to attach onto structures or other plants and ascend toward coveted areas of unobstructed light. As the ...

Some of these storms' rarest skyward stunners fall into a category called "sprite lightning," also known ... of light are a series of wispy red tendrils, which look a bit like spreading roots.