Volcanic lightning is lightning that forms in ash clouds during volcanic eruptions, caused by static electricity from ...

A chance discovery by a NASA rover on Mars shows that the red planet has a form of lightning, which researchers had suspected ...

When Alaska's Redoubt Volcano rumbled to life three years ago, researchers rushed to the scene to deploy radio sensors to catalog and map lightning within the plume. The readings, the team now reports ...

Volcanic lightning is a striking and multifaceted phenomenon that occurs during explosive eruptions, when vigorous interactions between fragmented ash particles, volcanic gases and environmental ...

Mount Etna's Voragine crater erupted for the first time in two years. — -- Italian residents were treated with quite the spectacle on Thursday. Fire and lightning lit up the sky over Sicily after ...

A volcano in northern Ethiopia erupted Sunday, marking its first known eruption in 12,000 years. The volcano, called Hayli ...

A volcano on Russia's far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula erupted overnight into Sunday for the first time in at least 400 years. The Krasheninnikov volcano sent ash more than 3.7 miles into the sky, ...

Lightning strikes can more than double some mushroom crops, according to ongoing experiments that are jolting fungi with ...