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

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

Soda lakes might hold the key to the emergence of life on Earth. These unique environments could have concentrated the ...

Even on a volatile Earth billions of years ago ... “We propose that this is a new mechanism for the prebiotic synthesis of molecules that constitute the building blocks of life.” ...

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

and we propose that this is a new mechanism for the prebiotic synthesis of molecules that constitute the building blocks of life,” Zare explained. “On early Earth, there were water sprays all ...

provided ideal conditions for prebiotic chemistry. "This new theory helps to solve another piece of the puzzle of the origin ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has unearthed the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars—possible fragments of fatty ...

Curiosity found large organic molecules in a 2013 Mars rock sample. These fragments suggest Mars had the right chemistry for ...

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