Now researchers in a new report have unveiled something else: the eruption set off more than 25,500 lightning events in just five minutes. Over the course of just six hours, the volcano triggered ...

Videos on social media showed bright purple flashes of lightning over the volcano during the eruption. Data from a ground-based global lightning detection network owned and operated by the Finnish ...

"The ash gets charged as the volcano is erupting," said Behnke. "It’s essentially the same reason we get lightning and thunder in storm clouds," added atmospheric scientist Adam Varble ...

A photographer in Guatemala captured the stunning moment a bolt of lightning hit a volcano as it was erupting. Astrophotographer Sergio Montúfar told SWNS, a British news agency, that he hiked up ...

The 55-year-old, from Munich, Germany, was standing just half a mile away from the northern crater of the volcano when it suddenly erupted. He said: "The strong lightning which shows in the image ...

Researchers in Munich are using a "volcano in the lab" to investigate the spectacular lightning often observed in eruption plumes. The hope eventually is to learn something about the nature of ...

This space wallpaper reveals a marvellous aerial photograph ... In the background we can see the snow-capped, 6,720 meter-high volcano Llullaillaco, located a mind-boggling 190 km further East ...

Several days ago, a volcano that had been dormant for 9,000 years near the coast of Chile erupted spectacularly, hurling liquified metals and lightning many miles into the sky. The results ...