While previous studies say volcanic or atmospheric lightning may have triggered chemical reactions that created organic ...

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

Although it makes up 70 per cent of our planet's surface, scientists still don't all agree on where Earth's water actually comes from. Now, researchers claim to have found the origins of water in ...

The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets.

Large soda lakes may have provided the high phosphorus levels needed for life to begin on Earth, offering a new explanation ...

The Miller-Urey hypothesis is based on a famous 1952 experiment in which researchers successfully formed these organic ...

Research suggests that microlightning from water droplets, rather than large lightning strikes, may have triggered life’s ...

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 ...

New microlightning research out of Stanford adds a "striking" twist to an existing theory about how life may have originated ...

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

Perhaps the falling of water, the most crucial element that sustains us, also played a greater role in the origin of life on Earth than we previously recognized.” Mindy Weisberger is a science ...

New research suggests tiny electrical charges in water droplets could have fueled the chemical reactions that led to life.