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 ...

Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but from many smaller "microlightning" exchanges ...

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

One famous experiment conducted in 1952 by American chemists Stanley Miller and Harold Urey provided a possible explanation: ...

Forget the dramatic lightning strike – life may have started with countless tiny sparks from crashing water droplets! Scientists found that when mist and sprays collide, they generate microlightning ...

Researchers from Stanford University believe their new theory debunks the idea that a massive lightning strike in our ...

In their view, inorganic molecules might have reacted due to energy from the Sun or lightning strikes to form life’s building ...