Earth and Saturn might be a lot more similar than previously thought. In a new study, a team of researchers suggests that 466 ...

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

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

The new study asserts that Earth's ring formed around 466 million years ago, and stuck around for around 40 million years ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists continue to learn new things about the planet, its sweeping rings and its many moons Shi En Kim Reporter Saturn comes second to Jupiter in many respects—in size, age, prominence of ...

Saturn is a planet widely recognisable for its iconic rings but a new study suggests Earth may also have had a similar ring system over 50 million years ago. As part of the research, 21 asteroid ...

The thought of Earth once having rings like Saturn feels almost surreal. Yet, new evidence suggests this could have been reality. According to a recent study in Earth & Planetary Science Letters ...

Saturn’s rings will disappear in the next few months, NASA has said. Saturn is the lightest planet in our solar system and it is known for its iconic rings. These rings extend over 281,000 kilometres.