The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets. Four billion years ...

Lightning flashes over the Mediterranean Sea (AFP via Getty ... Their study shows that larger water droplets often carry positive charges and smaller ones negative. When such oppositely charged ...

There was a storm brewing on land, but the sun was still shining over the water, so they figured they were safe—when, suddenly, a bolt of lightning struck out from the blue sky and knocked one ...

"One minute everything was fine and then just like lightning striking ... Last year, a whale leapt out of the water off the coast of New Hampshire, capsizing a boat and sending two fishermen ...

A new study adds another angle to the much-disputed Miller-Urey hypothesis, which argues that life on the planet emerged from ...