PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Halloween is here and scientists at the Nation Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are claiming that elves and sprites are real. Halloween’s the time for all things ...

Caused by an EMP, an ELVES event lasts for less than a thousandth of a second. This snap, from November 2025, shows the enormous phenomenon in one of the few shots ever captured from the ground.

Red spites, a type of transient luminous event or TLE, appear in the upper atmosphere above a thunderstorm in Oklahoma in April 2025. Photograph by Paul Smith Our atmosphere is like one big electrical ...

Sprites -- named after Puck, a nature sprite in English folklore -- are huge electrical discharges that occur in the mesosphere (50-100km above Earth), which are triggered by positive lightning ...

NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick said he was "super lucky a few weeks ago when shooting a timelapse of a lightning storm." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

An unprecedented flash observed by the space shuttle Columbia crew in 2003 over the Indian Ocean may be a new type of transient luminous event, like lightning sprites, but one that is not necessarily ...

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