The new study, published today in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, found that the rate supernovae occur near to our planet is consistent with the timings of both mass extinctions.

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These giant stars, some hundreds of times more massive than our sun, exploded in supernovae events, seeding the cosmos with heavy elements — but also oxygen. It didn’t take long for oxygen to ...