New research finds extinction rates have been declining for a century, challenging assumptions of an ongoing mass extinction.

Roughly 252 million years ago, Earth experienced its deadliest known extinction. Known as the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction, or “The Great Dying,” this cataclysm wiped out over 80% of marine ...

Humans have wiped out hundreds of species — with many more on the brink or experiencing large declines in population. Some scientists have argued that we have entered a “sixth mass extinction” event ...

(via Astrum) The future of NASA is changing. A proposed budget cut, the largest in the space program’s history, threatens to cancel missions and gut decades of progress. What happens when the world's ...

Supernova destroying planet, illustration. A rocky planet lies in the wake of its star, which has just gone supernova. The explosion shatters the planet. A complete census of massive stars in our part ...

The Late Devonian represents a critical interval in Earth’s history, marked by a profound restructuring of marine biodiversity and a series of mass extinction events. This period witnessed extensive ...

1998 was a banner year for disaster films involving large celestial bodies set to collide with planet Earth. Supposedly more scientifically accurate than its more financially successful counterpart, ...

Extinction is inevitable. Expected. Almost all (99%) species that have ever existed have died out. Those disappearances have largely occurred at consistent background rates. But in the context of mass ...