Primordial supernovae got the ball rolling a quick hundred million years or so after the start of the universe.

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

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

Hydrogen from geological formations makes up about 10% of the flammable gases that form the Yanartaş flames near Cirali, ...