The rings of Saturn are among the most famous and spectacular features in the solar system. Earth may once have had something ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Saturn's rings will briefly disappear from view due to its alignment with Earth. This happens due to the change in ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...