Cosmic rays may play a role in triggering lightning, a new study suggests, offering an out-of-this-world answer to a ...

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

These occur during particularly powerful thunderstorms and travel upwards into the atmosphere, as opposed to normal lightning which travels downward to the surface of Earth. — Eerie ...

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

Cosmic rays may play a role in triggering lightning on Earth, a new study suggests. | Credit: Jan Drahokoupil / 500px / Getty Images Cosmic rays may offer an out-of-this-world answer to a long ...

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

Researchers decades ago proposed that lightning caused chemical reactions in ancient Earth’s oceans and spontaneously produced the organic molecules. Now, new research published March 14 in the ...

Dipteryx trees in Panama survive lightning strikes, grow taller, lose rivals, and reproduce more successfully.

Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but ... into a mixture of gases thought to be present in Earth's early atmosphere can lead to the formation of organic ...

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