The museum hopes that after learning about the planet’s prehistoric past, people will do more to preserve Earth’s future.

Brendan McGetrick, the creative director of Museum of the Future, came to Austin, Texas, with a traveling exhibit for the first time recently.

After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.

Scientists don't call it the "Great Dying" for nothing. About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species ...

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

Violent supernovas may have caused two of Earth’s largest mass ... these extinction events. And then it might be some that say we’re speculating too much. What we just want to do is draw ...

Deaths of nearby massive stars may have played a significant role in triggering at least two mass extinction events in Earth's history, according to new research. The explosive supernova deaths of ...

What we just want to do is draw attention to the numbers.” Violent supernovas may have caused two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions that have never been completely explained, according to a ...