Deaths of nearby massive stars may have played a significant role in triggering at least two mass extinction events in ...

A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova ...

while the late Devonian wiped out around 70% of all species and led to huge changes in the kind of fish that existed in our ancient seas and lakes. Past research has failed to identify a clear ...

As part of this, the research team calculated the supernova rate within 20 parsecs of the Sun, or approximately 65 ...

During the Devonian geological era ... of about 85% of species at a time when life was mostly limited to the seas. “Their link to those mass extinctions, especially the Late Ordovician, is ...