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 E-Mail IMAGE: An illustration of early Earth, as it would have looked around 4 billion years ago view more  Credit: Lucy Entwisle Lightning strikes were just as important as meteorites in creating the perfect conditions for life to emerge on Earth, geologists say. Minerals delivered to Earth in meteorites more than 4 billion years ago have long been advocated as key ingredients for the development of life on our planet. Scientists believed minimal amounts of these minerals were also brought to early Earth through billions of lightning strikes. But now researchers from the Univer...

Prior to this study, it had been thought that meteorites provided the needed ingredients for life on Earth to begin.

Lightning Bolts Could Have Delivered The Spark That Started Life on Earth 16 MARCH 2021 The question of how life on Earth got started has long intrigued us, and new research suggests that primordial lightning strikes – perhaps over the course of a billion years – could have played a crucial role in sparking life on this planet.   Central to the idea is the way that lightning bolts create special glasses called fulgurites when they hit the ground. Fulgurites contain phosphorus, one of the key basic ingredients for the formation of life; this ingredient is often locked away inside insolu...

Researchers say the bolts may have unlocked the phosphorus necessary for the creation of biomolecules that would be the basis of life.