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

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

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

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

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 ...

This artist's rendition could have been somewhat like what the view of the sky was like 460 million years ago, minus the trees and contrails (of course). © Kevin ...

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.

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

To reach that surprisingly conclusion, scientists studied the positions of 21 asteroid impact craters during the Ordovician period – the second of six periods in the ...

If Earth captured a passing asteroid around 466 million years ago, it could have ripped it to shreds and formed a ring. This debris would then rain down on the planet, focused on the equator ...

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 almost all of our solar system’s large planets ...