In a stormy Hawaiian sky in July 2017, streaks of red and blue lightning seemed to meet above a bed of white light. Cameras on the Gemini North telescope at the Gemini Observatory in Mauna Kea snapped ...

Sprites and jets are fleeting atmospheric phenomena, hard enough to witness, let alone photograph. But a new image from an observatory in Hawaii captures both a red sprite and a blue jet in the same ...

Ariel in The Tempest, you may recall, was a spirit, or a "sprite". It was his pleasure to do the bidding of his master, Prospero, "be't to fly, to swim, to dive into the fire, or ride upon the curl'd ...

In less time than it takes a hummingbird to flap its wings once, a recently discovered form of high-altitude lightning can come and go, but not before spreading its multiple-branching red streamers ...