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

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

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.

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

It’s not as crazy as it might sound. Earth is actually notable for its lack of a ring system. Though Saturn’s rings are the most prominent, the researchers point out in the study that all of ...

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

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 ...

Saturn’s rings are iconic, but new evidence suggests Earth might once have sported one of its own. This ring would have caused chaos on the surface. We know Earth has gone through a lot of ...

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 ...