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

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, ...

Just after midnight tonight, Saturn will appear at its biggest and brightest in the night sky. This is because Earth will be positioned directly between Saturn and the sun, offering stargazers a ...

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

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

Saturn is famous for its rings, which make it look different from all the other planets in our solar system. However, the rings are likely to “disappear” in a few months. In March 2025 ...

The rings of Saturn are a breathtaking sight in the Solar System. However, in March 2025, there will be a temporary "disappearance" of these rings, which is actually an optical illusion and not a ...

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

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 ...

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 ...