Roughly 252 million years ago, Earth experienced its deadliest known extinction. Known as the Permian–Triassic Mass ...

Our planet is warming 10 times faster than it has in 65 million years. ... As catastrophic as the Great Dying was, scientists are concerned the Earth could now be headed for another disaster.

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

Astronomers identified Krypton’s likely location 42 light-years from Earth. Here’s how long Superman’s journey would take, ...

Last week, the human race met its very first Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star in the habitable zone. Kepler-452b’s discovery was met with ...

Scientists have long agreed this event was triggered by a sudden surge in greenhouse gases which resulted in an intense and ...

Could Earth Be Swallowed by the Dying Sun? By Jeremy Hsu , Space.com Published August 3, 2009 10:33am EDT | Updated May 16, 2015 12:29am EDT ...

A cataclysm engulfed the planet some 252 million years ago, wiping out more than 90% of all life. Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period was the ...

Around 252 million years ago, Earth’s most severe extinction incident wiped out all living things on the planet, but scientists have always wondered what made the event so severe. The Permian ...

One major confounding factor into how a dying alien planet might look could be the influence of extraterrestrial intelligence. "Intelligent life is difficult to factor in when making these kind of ...

For the first time — and in our own Milky Way galaxy — scientists were able to watch in real time as a dying star sucked a “Jupiter-sized world” into its blazing core. The stunning act of ...