A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...

Researchers have found evidence suggesting that our planet may have once had a ring system around 466 million years ago.

Evidence suggests Earth had a ring system 466 million years ago, causing a surge in meteorite impacts and possibly ...

The new study asserts that Earth's ring formed around 466 million years ago, and stuck around for around 40 million years ...

Earth and Saturn might be a lot more similar than previously thought. In a new study, a team of researchers suggests that 466 ...

Earth may have had a giant ring of space rocks surrounding it, similar to those around Saturn, which could have led to chaotic meteorite strikes on our planet's surface, new research suggests.

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

I f astronomers had been walking the Earth 466 million years ago, they may have had something special to see. The moon and ...

To reach that surprisingly conclusion, scientists studied the positions of 21 asteroid impact craters during the Ordovician period – the second of six periods in the ...

The rings of Saturn are some of the most famous and spectacular objects in the Solar System. Earth may once have had something similar. In a paper published last week in Earth & Planetary Science ...

Instead, they believe that they may have come from a ring around Earth, similar to Saturn’s rings. It might sound strange to think Earth had rings. However, researchers say it’s actually very ...

Earth may briefly have had a ring system similar to Saturn’s over 450 million years ago during a period of unusually intense meteorite bombardment, a new study proposes. Scientists assessed 21 ...