Here’s a look at the five major extinction events of epochs past, and a glimpse at the sixth one we might be causing right now. World Science Festival Sources: ...

Roughly 252 million years ago, Earth experienced its deadliest known extinction. Known as the Permian–Triassic Mass ...

Throughout its 4.5 billion-year history, Earth has endured numerous mass extinctions, each of which has wiped out more than three-quarters of the planet's species and greatly reduced its ...

A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova rate of stars closest to the sun in the past 1 billion years.

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...

Violent supernovas may have caused two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions that have never been completely explained, according to a theory put forward in new research.During the final stages of a ...