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

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

A Stanford study shows that tiny electrical charges in water droplets caused reactions that developed organic matter from ...

Water spray, however, would have been more common than lightning. A more likely scenario is that mist-generated microlightning constantly zapped amino acids into existence from pools and puddles ...

But critics have long argued that lightning strikes were too rare and the oceans too vast for this to be a plausible explanation. Richard Zare, a chemist at Stanford, and his team offer a compelling ...

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

A Texas home was struck by lightning six times — and it was caught on a neighbor's doorbell camera. The Bell County Fire ...

A lightning strike on an oil tank caused a large fire west of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A fire official says the first crews at ...

I want to be clear: our drinking water is not impacted. This impacts our wastewater operations only,' says mayor; city asks people to reduce water, sewage usage ...

There was a storm brewing on land, but the sun was still shining over the water, so they figured they were safe—when, suddenly, a bolt of lightning struck out from the blue sky and knocked one ...