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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Science News: A new NASA and Toho University study, utilizing supercomputers, projects Earth's habitability timeline, revealing the eventual demise of life due to t ...

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 ...

A second asteroid may have struck during the dinosaurs' demise. A possible crater buried under the West African coast may have come from a space rock that crashed into Earth around the time of the ...