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

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

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 ...

It’s a yearly moment when Saturn, Earth and the sun are in a straight line, with Earth in the middle. Our view of the ringed planets doesn't get any better than this. Here's everything you need ...

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 ...

The ring would have gradually fallen to Earth as meteorites, correlating to a spike of impacts seen in the geological record.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...