New international pollution laws may have helped researchers discover an unexpected way to stop lightning strikes.

T here are multiple theories that explain the origin of life on Earth, but one of the most disputed ones was proposed in 1953 ...

Earth might be creating microscopic lightning bolts—and this electrical phenomenon could have sparked the chemistry of life ...

Study discovered that tiny electrical sparks, called microlightning, form when water droplets collide. These can create ...

On March 14, a total lunar eclipse, known as a "blood moon," occurred as Earth aligned between the sun and moon, casting a ...

The crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission launched from the Kennedy Space Center around 7:03 p.m. local time on Friday. NASA ...

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Experiments show that those small electrical charges can trigger the chemical reactions necessary to form organic molecules.

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

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 ...

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 ...