An image of Augustine erupting on January 13, 2006, from about 50 miles away from the volcano. Courtesy of Gerald Andrew When Mount St. Augustine in Alaska erupted in mid-January 2006 for the first ...

Volcanic lightning photos are some of the most impressive out there, in my opinion. Volcanic lightning is a striking and rare phenomenon that occurs during some volcanic eruptions. As ash, rock and ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A stunning video of spider-web lightning striking a volcano in ...

Volcanic lightning looks surreal: an arc of light rises from the volcanic crater, stretching out into the murky skies. Although scientists knew what caused such frightening yet beautiful phenomena, ...

Triggered by lightning in thunderstorms, whistler waves are radio waves that are channelled thousands of kilometres around the world via ducts in the magnetosphere. As Ian Randall reports, these ...

In this photo released by Geological Agency (Badan Geologi) of the Indonesia's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, lightning strikes as Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki spews volcanic material during an ...

Physicists have solved a longstanding mystery around the process that creates volcanic lightning: when similar particles rub together, why do some become positively charged while others become ...