New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...

About 4 billion years ago, Earth began to show signs of the conditions that allowed the first cells to take hold and populate ...

We may be starting to get a grasp on what kick-started life on Earth – and it could help us search for it on other planets ...

But real lightning would have struck infrequently—and mostly in open ocean, where organic compounds would have quickly ...

Miller and Urey proposed that life got its jump-start from lightning striking Earth's primordial ocean around 4 billion years ...

Large soda lakes - those without natural runoff - could have built and sustained extremely high concentrations of phosphorus.

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

Electrical energy may also have sparked the beginnings of life on Earth billions of years ago, though with a bit less scenery-chewing than that classic film scene. But where did that organic ...