A new study suggests that microscopic lightning bolts—called microlightning—within water droplets may have helped forge the very first amino acids on Earth. The research revives and reimagines ...

Lightning near the North Pole reveals dramatic climate changes as Arctic temperatures rise and storms intensify.

But the origins of life on Earth might have been home grown. A team of geologists discovered that lightning strikes here on our planet can form schreibersite. That means the “emergence of life is not ...