Two astrophotographers captured breathtaking video of over 105 red sprites over Tibet during a massive thunderstorm.

Astronomers think they've detected an extremely rare, luminous phenomenon known as a "glory" in the hellish atmosphere of a distant exoplanet. If the finding is confirmed, it would be the first ...

Auroras are luminous, natural phenomena that consist of streamers or arches of light appearing in the upper atmosphere of Earth's magnetic poles. They're also really beautiful. Produced by Devan ...

Frozen fuel from the Falcon 9 rocket launched Monday created a luminous display for several minutes, and was seen by people ...

The electromagnetic spectrum of the Sun contains ample energy for excitation ; but its responsibility for transient lunar luminous phenomena seems to be contradicted by the time-lag, from several ...

Glow-in-the-dark' products are an example of photoluminescence. "Luminous phenomena can be seen everywhere in nature, from glowing jellyfish in the ocean to fireflies in the mountain forest, from the ...

They detected two luminous flares from this event. The finding was reported in a paper published Dec. 19 on the preprint server arXiv. Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are astronomical phenomena ...