Scientists have proposed a fascinating new idea: Earth may have once possessed a ring system, akin to that of Saturn. These ...

Impact craters found around the Earth that were made around the same time could be linked to debris falling from a ring, a ...

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

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

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

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

Did Earth once look a lot more like Saturn? Scientists believe the answer is yes! In a groundbreaking study, researchers in ...

Evidence suggests Earth had a ring system 466 million years ago, causing a surge in meteorite impacts and possibly ...

A new study from Monash University scientists suggests that Earth may have had a ring system that formed around 466 million ...

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

ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES PLUS The researchers' idea that Earth once had rings comes from reconstructions of Earth's plate tectonics from the Ordovician period—which ran between 485.4 million years and ...

To reach that surprisingly conclusion, scientists studied the positions of 21 asteroid impact craters during the Ordovician ...