Volcanic lightning, the researchers hypothesize, is the result of charge-separation. As positively charged ejecta makes its way skyward, ...

At nighttime, ominous lightning flashes above erupting volcanoes light up the sky like a living nightmare. Now, scientists are closer to understanding volcanic lightning, which stems from both ash ...

The Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption back in January 2022 was visible from space and the images are incredible.

Volcanic lightning has a key principle in common with lightning in regular clouds: You need a separation of positive and negative charges. When this segregation becomes too much for physics to ...

Lightning flashes around the ash plume above the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano chain near Entrelagos on June 5, 2011. Reuters Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

Scientists have created the first artificial volcano capable of simulating the lightning flashes seen in real-life eruptions. Volcanic eruptions are amongst the most powerful geologic events known ...

Photographer Martin Reitze, 55, recently captured stunning images of volcanic lightning at the Ebeko volcano in Russia. PINK GRASSHOPPER, UNUSUAL AND 'EXTREMELY RARE,' SPOTTED IN UK GARDEN.

The searing hot plumes of ash rising above explosive volcanic blasts often burst with lightning storms, the largest of which rival the most powerful thunderstorms known on Earth. Now the most ...

Over the course of just six hours, the volcano triggered nearly 400,000 lightning events. Half of all the lightning in the world was concentrated around this volcano at the eruption’s peak.

The intense eruption lodged volcanic material and ash 36 miles high, a world record. Van Eaton said that momentum from the fragmentation of the magma drove a strong upward current of air at the ...

Millions of years ago, giant volcanic eruptions in what’s now Turkey and Peru each deposited millions of metric tons of nitrate on the surrounding land. That nutrient may have come from volcanic ...