A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...

When Siberian volcanoes kicked off the Great Dying, the real climate villain turned out to be the rainforests themselves: ...

Earth’s future is bleak. At best, our planet will become a burned-out cinder as the Sun expands at the end of its life. At worst, it will be engulfed by the Sun, leaving no trace that it ever existed.

Science. A Different Vision for Earth’s Demise. How our planet could survive the sun’s last gasp. By Jonathan O'Callaghan. Matteo Giuseppe Pani. January 6, 2024.

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers captured the dramatic end of a distant planet. Thanks to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists now understand that the Earth did not ...

The long-dead probe’s remains have subsequently circled the planet for over 53 years—but according to a Dutch satellite tracker, its fiery (and uncontrolled) demise is finally on the horizon.

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged global warming which followed, according to new research.

Naturally, an Earth where it's 74 degrees Fahrenheit at the South Pole is going to make the rest of the planet inhospitable. Around this time, Kazumi Ozaki and Christopher T. Reinhard suggest in ...

That's according to a study published in Science Advances co-authored by Don Baker, a professor in McGill University's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. The paper is titled "Recurring ...

While life on Earth does usually find a way, it is not without some intense past–and future–periods of mass death. Extinction is not exclusive to dinosaurs.Our planet has gone through at least ...

Earth May Escape Being Engulfed by the Red Giant Sun. The lead author of the research, Keming Zhang, a postdoctoral fellow at UC San Diego, explained that our Earth could meet the same fate.