Five 'mass extinctions' have decimated our planet since it was formed - now scientists claim the answers to two could be written in the stars.

Supernovas are powerful explosions marking the death of massive stars. They spread elements like carbon, calcium, and iron ...

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

A region in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium - or “life oasis”- for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian ...

Can plants reveal the secrets of survival during Earth's darkest days? At an outcrop north of Sydney, Australia, the research ...

Some scientists have now branded the “Great Dying” as a “crisis on land, not an extinction” after new fossil discoveries led ...

New research suggests that powerful star explosions, called supernovae, may have caused at least two mass extinctions in ...

Some of the most massive and influential stars in the universe are OB stars. These blue giants, many times more massive than ...

A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.

Scientists have found a rare life "oasis" where plants and animals thrived during Earth's deadliest mass extinction 252 ...

The End-Permian mass extinction killed an estimated 80% of life on Earth, but new research suggests that plants might have ...

Exploding stars known as supernovas may have sparked mass extinctions that wiped out up to 85% of animals on Earth.