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

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

Earth may have had a giant ring of space rocks surrounding it, similar to those around Saturn, which could have led to ...

The ring might have acted like a giant sunshade, causing a cooling effect that might have unleashed an ice age.

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 ...

The rings of Saturn are some of the most famous and spectacular ... my colleagues and I present evidence that Earth may have had a ring. The existence of such a ring, forming around 466 million ...

It’s not as crazy as it might sound. Earth is actually notable for its lack of a ring system. Though Saturn’s rings are the most prominent, the researchers point out in the study that all of ...

Earth may have had a giant ring of space rocks surrounding it, similar to those around Saturn, which could have led to chaotic meteorite strikes on our planet's surface, new research suggests.

Saturn’s rings are iconic, 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 ...

You may know that Saturn isn’t the only planet with rings. Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus have less obvious rings, too. Some scientists have even suggested that Phobos and Deimos, the small moons of Mars ...

Back when the Earth was crawling with trilobites and other strange shelled creatures, our planet may have had a ring just like Saturn's. This ancient ring system is thought to have formed about ...