Volcanic lightning looks surreal: an arc of light rises from the volcanic crater, stretching out into the murky skies.

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 ...

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 ...

When particles in volcanic ash cloud rub together, some pick up positive charge and others negative – now physicists have ...

The spark that transfers a charge from one carbon particle to another, generating lightning and possibly life itself, is ...

Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki spewed a column of molten ash topped with volcanic lighnting into the Flores' night sky - Copyright Indonesia's Geological Agency/AFP - Mount ...

An Indonesian volcano spewed a 10-kilometre (6.2-miles) molten plume of ash topped by lightning into the Friday night sky, weeks after another huge eruption triggered dozens of flight cancellations in ...