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.

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

A weird number of craters are located close to the equator, and the odds that this is random are incredibly low, researchers ...

The ring could have blocked sunlight on earth by casting a shadow on the surface of the planet, contributing to a significant ...

Researchers have proposed that Earth may have had a ring system 466 million years ago, during a period of intense meteorite ...

Get ready for an astronomical event like no other! In March 2025, Saturn's iconic rings will temporarily disappear from view as Earth and Saturn align, causing the rings to appear edge-on. This rare ...

Earth may have had a giant ring of space rocks surrounding it, similar to those around Saturn, which could have led to ...

Back when the Earth was crawling with trilobites and other strange shelled creatures, our planet may have had a ring just like Saturn's. This ancient ring system is thought to have formed about 466 ...

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

Saturn’s rings are iconic, but new evidence suggests Earth might once have sported one of its own. This ring would have ...

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 ...