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

The Earth: a ringed planet, much like Saturn, surrounded by a hula hoop of asteroids. The summit of Mount Everest: a tropical ...

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

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

This raises the question: could Earth have had a ring, somewhere in its wild past? We are unlikely to find traces of it in space, if it ever existed; but, for a period of time during the ...

It might sound strange to think Earth had rings. However, researchers say it’s actually very notable that Earth didn’t have rings as far as we know through our own history. That’s because ...

The rings of Saturn are some of the most famous and spectacular objects in the Solar System. Earth may once have had something similar ... a lot of meteorites started hitting Earth. We know this ...

The rings of Saturn are some of the most famous and spectacular objects in the solar system. Earth may once have had something similar ... a lot of meteorites started hitting Earth. We know this ...

but new evidence suggests Earth might once have sported one of its own. This ring would have caused chaos on the surface. We know Earth has gone through a lot of different phases in its lifetime.

“We don’t know how the ring would have looked from Earth or how much light it would have cut out or how much debris there would have had to be in the ring to lower the temperature on Earth ...

Earth may briefly have had a ring ... from this ring gradually fell to Earth, creating the spike in meteorite impacts observed in the geological record,” study author Andy Tomkins from Australia’s ...