As astronomer Carl Sagan once said, we are "made of star stuff," as this research suggests, we may also be at the mercy of it ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods forever. Researchers warn ...

Fossils from China’s Turpan-Hami Basin reveal it was a rare land refuge during the end-Permian extinction, with fast ...

Scientists don't call it the "Great Dying" for nothing. About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species ...

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

Stanford scientists found that dramatic climate changes after the Great Dying enabled a few marine species to spread globally ...

After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.

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

At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the 'devastating' effects of nearby supernova explosions, a new study suggests. Researchers say these super-powerful blasts ...

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

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

What drives us to send probes throughout the solar system and rovers and landers to Mars? It's not cheap, and it's not easy.