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

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

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

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 ...

In a discovery that challenges our understanding of Earth's ancient history, researchers have found evidence suggesting that ...

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

Tuesday, September 17, 2024, sees a partial lunar eclipse as a full "Harvest Moon" drifts through the edge of Earth's shadow in space. It will set up a "ring of fire." ...

Saturn’s rings are iconic, but new evidence suggests Earth might once have sported one of its own. This ring would have ...

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

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 ...

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