Slimane Bekki, the lead author of the study and an atmospheric science specialist at Sorbonne, posits that volcanic lightning was the main catalyst behind the origination of human life.

Plumes from these volcanoes' eruptions can stretch for miles out into space ... Related: New thunderstorms wider than Earth ...

Chrissy and Jasmine, our NIU STEAM team, answer a young STEAM mind's inquiry of how there can be thunder without rain.

Abnormally high solar activity treated photographers with multiple light shows over the course of 2025, even from southern ...

More than 200,000 lightning flashes, shown as blue dots, occurred throughout the duration of the eruption at Tonga’s Hunga Volcano on January 15, 2022. New analyses of the eruption’s lightning ...

Guadalupe Maravilla draws on his home country of El Salvador as he sculpts backpacks and enlarged hands from volcanic rock.

A volcano in eastern Indonesia erupted more than half a dozen times on Thursday, catapulting a colossal ash tower five miles into the sky against a backdrop of lightning as nearby residents fled ...

They work individually and then in groups to create volcanoes. Towards the end of the session the group divides into two - one group representing the lightning storm and the other the whales ...