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

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

Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but from many smaller "microlightning" exchanges ...

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 ...

These brilliant images show how researchers in Switzerland are using weather-modification techniques to understand how ice ...