Rings tend to form around the equators of planets—so, if Earth had rings, and thus, ring rain, we would see a pattern of impact craters exactly like those described in this recent study.

Back when the Earth was crawling with trilobites and other strange shelled creatures, our planet may have had a ring just like Saturn ... the geological features we can see today," study lead ...

You have a picture in there ... of awe if we lived on a planet with rings, something we sometimes see in science fiction movies. Had you been around on Earth 466 million years ago, you might ...

Researchers have proposed that Earth may have had a ring system 466 million years ago ... and the development of life over time. Did we miss something? Intriguing clue on Tutankhamun’s death ...

Now, we’ve ... the rings had only 100 million years left to live. Now, it’s tough to imagine a ringless Saturn. But for much of its existence, the planet was as naked as Earth.

"We also see that ... might not have been Earth’s only ring. While this ancient ring system eventually fizzled out as gravity sucked the debris down, it's possible Earth had more than one ...

On a local level, heavy metal and chemical pollution from unmaintained factories and infrastructure will exert pressures on ...

Much of what we understand about Uranus comes from data gathered by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Thirty-eight years ago, this ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

After Amazon’s first season of “The Rings of Power ... relay episodic myths from Middle-earth’s Second Age, which spans roughly 3,000 years. Changes had to made. But were they for ...

Saturn’s northern hemisphere and rings ... that it had to be pointed at only tiny parts of Saturn at any one time to prevent its detectors from being overwhelmed. The resulting images are ...

“If Voyager 2 had arrived just a few days earlier ... While encountering the planet on Jan. 24, 1986, the probe returned ...