An eerie new photo shows a giant red ring shining above Possagno, near the Italian Alps. The eye-catching image is almost ...

These glowing rings are so rare that they were only discovered by NASA in the 1990s, making spotting two over the same tiny ...

The glowing ring, photographed over Possagno by nature photographer Valter Binotto, looks almost identical to another ...

High above a storm, a mysterious red ring appeared for a split second. Here's how one photographer captured the elusive "elve ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — Do you believe in sprites or elves? How about ghosts? You may think of the mythical creatures when it comes to these terms, but those are the names of rare types of lightning ...

A rare UFO-like red light reappeared over Possagno, Italy, leaving scientists puzzled and sparking excitement among skywatchers. The phenomenon flashed across the sky on November 17, lasting only a ...

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 ...

Elves are bright flashes of light in the night sky resulting from lightning within thunderstorms. The thin upper atmosphere gives off a brief glow as the electromagnetic pulse from a lightning bolt ...

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 ...

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 ...