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

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

New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Earth may briefly have had a ring system similar to Saturn’s over 450 million years ago during a period of unusually intense meteorite bombardment, a new study proposes. Scientists assessed 21 ...

After a near miss with an asteroid 466 million years ago, Earth may have developed a Saturn-like ring of debris that lasted for tens of millions of years – and may have significantly affected ...