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

When we think of planets with rings, Saturn often comes to mind. However, new research suggests that Earth might have had its ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

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

Earth may have had a Saturn-like ring system long ago, created from the debris of a passing asteroid that our planet tore ...

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

The ring might have acted like a giant sunshade, causing a cooling effect that might have unleashed 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 466 ...