The End-Permian mass extinction killed an estimated 80% of life on Earth, but new research suggests that plants might have ...
Are they stars? Are they planets? Or are they neither? Some rogue planetary mass objects that wander the cosmos alone could ...
How do rogue planetary-mass objects – celestial bodies that fall between planets and stars in size – come into existence? An ...
The rate of stars going supernova near Earth appears to match two mass extinctions -- 372 million years ago and 445 million ...
About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and ...
Exploding stars in near-solar space may have triggered at least two mass extinction events in Earth’s history. A new study ...
New findings suggest planetary-mass objects may emerge from clashes between young star systems, altering existing theories.
Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard's Star, the second-nearest star system to Earth.