Lightning is a familiar sight throughout the solar system. Not only do bolts strike on Earth, but they also sizzle through the air on Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and (most likely) Neptune.

Mysterious "sprites" and "elves" dance high in the Earth's atmosphere — but these aren't mythical creatures, they're disks, globes and tendrils of light caused by lightning. Now scientists for the ...

Berkeley - Photos of red sprites, blue jets, elves and sprite halos are now flowing into the University of California, Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory from the first satellite instrument devoted ...

A team of Spanish researchers has made a high-speed recording of elves and sprites in storms, fleeting and luminous electric phenomena produced in the upper layers of the atmosphere. Their analysis of ...

A rare and vivid atmospheric event has been captured from orbit, offering scientists new insight into how lightning behaves far above Earth’s weather systems. Astronauts aboard the International Space ...

Jupiter may be the first planet besides Earth known to host atmospheric light shows called “sprites” or “elves.” Scientists suspected these atmospheric phenomena might appear on other planets that ...

Near the edge of space, sprites and elves dance, but there's nothing mythical about them. Sprites and elves are reddish, ultrafast bursts of electricity that are born near the edge of space, about 50 ...

Just in time for Halloween, NASA announced results from the space agency's Juno mission that suggest "sprites" or "elves" could be frolicking in Jupiter's upper atmosphere. Named for mischievous fairy ...

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