Two of Earth’s five confirmed mass extinction events could have been caused by nearby supernova explosions stripping the ...

A college professor in New Jersey is claiming that his 380 million-year-old fossils ended up in a landfill due to negligence ...

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

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

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

At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the "devastating" effects of nearby supernova ...

Scientists from Keele University have found strong evidence that some of Earth’s past mass extinctions could have been caused by nearby supernova explosions—massive star explosions in the Milky Way.

Exploding stars in near-solar space may have triggered at least two mass extinction events in Earth’s history. A new study ...

Rockport State Recreation Area is known to have exposed fossils from the Devonian period – more than 400 million years ago.