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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Later observers have been deceived in the same way. Saturn surrounded by its rings appeared to Scheiner and Hevel, in 1614, as a disk with two projecting ears. The Jesuit priest Eustachius de ...

"Previous estimates of the age of Saturn's rings required a lot of modelling and were far more uncertain. But we now have direct measurements that allows us to constrain the age very well ...

This is because Earth will be positioned directly between Saturn and the sun, offering stargazers a spectacular sight — and a chance to catch a glimpse of the planet's rings before they turn ...

Scientists continue to learn new things about the planet, its sweeping rings and its many moons Shi En Kim Reporter Saturn comes second to Jupiter in many respects—in size, age, prominence of ...

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

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 ...