Two nearby explosive massive star deaths, or supernovas, may have triggered mass extinction events in Earth's distant past, ...

New research suggests the violent explosions of dying stars may have caused two of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions millions ...

Specifically, the findings support the hypothesis that supernovae could have triggered two of the so-called "big five" mass ...

The rate of stars going supernova near Earth appears to match two mass extinctions -- 372 million years ago and 445 million ...

The mass extinction that ended the Permian geological ... The earliest periods, in the Permian, were cold, while the first period of the Triassic—the Induan—had a disturbed climate which ...

During a cataclysmic mass extinction event, there are typically not many places to hide. However, a region of the mountainous Turpan-Hami Basin in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region in Western China ...

(Image Credit: Yang Dinghua) Artistic reconstruction of the terrestrial ecological landscape before the end Permian mass extinction based on fossil palynomorphs, plants , and tetrapods recovered, as ...

resulting in a chain of events that could cause a mass extinction. During the Devonian geological era, life thrived on land for the first time, but early land plants and animals making the ...