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.

The spectacular moment one of the world’s most active volcanoes was struck by lightning has left people in disbelief. Volcán ...

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

Local authorities have also declared a "state of calamity". Meanwhile, the volcano has cast a lightning storm into the air, and the surrounding area has been blanketed with ash. But how dangerous ...

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 ...

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 ...

A volcano in the Philippines has begun spewing ... this is characterised by weak lava fountaining accompanied by thunder and flashes of lightning," the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and ...

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

NASA's Juno spacecraft captures stunning images of Io's volcanic surface, revealing fresh lava flows and sulfur dioxide gas ...

A Reuters photographer captured a stunning photo of lightning striking Japan's Mount Sakurajima volcano on Thursday. Located in southern Kyushu, Sakurajima is one of the world's most active ...

Sometimes (like with Mount Ibu) we see lightning flash around volcanic clouds. When a column of hot ash is sent up from a volcano during an eruption, lots of tightly packed particles - the tiny ...

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 ...