{"id":240649,"date":"2026-07-11T07:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T12:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/could-invisible-planet-flybys-have-triggered-earths-mass-extinctions"},"modified":"2026-07-11T07:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T12:21:12","slug":"could-invisible-planet-flybys-have-triggered-earths-mass-extinctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/could-invisible-planet-flybys-have-triggered-earths-mass-extinctions","title":{"rendered":"Could Invisible Planet Flybys Have Triggered Earth\u2019s Mass Extinctions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/could-invisible-planet-flybys-have-triggered-earths-mass-extinctions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A speculative paper argues that ancient planetary flybys may have helped trigger some of Earth\u2019s mass extinctions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A speculative paper argues that ancient planetary flybys may have helped trigger some of Earth\u2019s mass extinctions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}