Parts of Alberta witnessed a spectacle early Friday morning as rare noctilucent clouds, also known as night-shining clouds, ...

Their Latin name means "night shining" and the clouds usually appear as streaks of blue or silver. The Met Office describes ...

A Met Office video explains seven rare cloud types - including noctilucent clouds as they’re sighted in the UK.

A Met Office video explains seven rare cloud types - including noctilucent clouds as they’re sighted in Edinburgh.

The mesosphere, which becomes coldest during the summer months, allows the tiny amount of water vapour to condense onto particles of cosmic dust. This process creates very thin, wispy clouds that ...

Speeding around the Earth at 28,000 km/h, NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured an incredible view of a phenomenon known as a ...

NASA recently captured a light phenomenon known as an “atmospheric sprite” over Mexican territory, near the border with the ...

A sudden burst of red light flickered above a thunderstorm, and for a brief moment, Earth’s upper atmosphere revealed one of ...

Red sprites are among a class of enigmatic weather phenomena that appear over thunderstorms, known as Transient Luminous ...

Red sprites are large-scale, luminous electrical discharges that occur high above thunderstorm clouds.