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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

His photo captures a remarkable moment---the volcano erupting in a plume of ash and lava as lightning strikes, illuminating the scene against a sky filled with stars. For Tapiro, it underscores ...

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 ...

In May 2008, Chile's Chaiten volcano violently erupted, spewing out clouds of dirty ash and illuminating the dark sky with a most unusual kind of lightning. Photographer Carlos Gutierrez captured ...

New research showed that the plume emitted by the Hunga Volcano eruption in 2022 created the highest lightning flash rates ever recorded on Earth, more than any storm ever documented. New research ...