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

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

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

Once upon a time, Earth may have sported a planetary ring of its very own. The hypothetical ring didn't last long, cosmically ...

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 ...

Researchers believe a ring system around Earth could have contributed to the global cooling event known as the Hirnantian ...

Saturn will reach opposition this weekend when the ringed planet and the sun are directly opposite of each other in the sky ... the rings will gradually return to our view from Earth.

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

Once upon a time, Earth may have sported a planetary ring of its very own. The hypothetical ring didn't last long, cosmically speaking – just a few tens of millions of years. But that was long ...

The ring is thought to have been formed about 466 million years ago, when a large asteroid approached the Earth too close, exceeding the Roche limit, and was torn apart by tidal forces ...

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 ...

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 ...