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.

smoke and lava coupled with intense and rapid volcanic lightning while prompting thousands to evacuate over concerns the blasts might trigger a tsunami. The Ruang volcano in the province of North ...

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 ...

When Hurricane Helene hit the southeastern United States last month, it caused widespread power outages and devastating ...

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 ...