Backed by a National Science Foundation grant of more than $500,000, Pfeifer, the lead principal investigator, and a team of ...
Two of Earth's largest mass extinction events were likely triggered by the fallout from two supernovae in nearby space. This is the conclusion of a team of researchers from Keele University, England, ...
Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing over a period of roughly 30 million years, but that would come to a halt ...
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 ...