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

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

New NASA research reveals a process to generate extremely accurate eclipse maps, which plot the predicted path of the Moon’s ...

Researchers have found evidence suggesting that our planet may have once had a ring system around 466 million years ago.

The Earth: a ringed planet, much like Saturn, surrounded by a hula hoop of asteroids. The summit of Mount Everest: a tropical ...

“Over millions of years, material from this ring gradually fell to Earth, creating the spike in meteorite impacts observed in ...

Earth may have sported a Saturn-like ring system 466 million years ago, after it captured and wrecked a passing asteroid, a new study suggests. The debris ring, which likely lasted tens of millions of ...

Scientists have concluded that the Earth may have had a ring system similar to Saturn's based on the analysis of the location ...

Birth of a Ring The reconstructed locations of impacts during the Ordovician Period. These impacts are suggested to be from a disintegrated asteroid that passed too close to Earth. Credit: Tomkins and ...

Earth may briefly have had a ring system similar to Saturn ’s over 450 million years ago during a period of unusually intense ...

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

New research challenges what we know of our planet’s ancient past, suggesting that a ring formed around the Earth around 466 ...