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

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 ...

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

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

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

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. Earth is around 4.5 billion ...