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 ...

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

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

Researchers have found evidence suggesting that Earth may have had a ring system, which formed 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 ...

Earth may briefly have had a ring system similar to Saturn ’s over 450 million years ago during a period of unusually intense ...

A weird number of craters are located close to the equator, and the odds that this is random are incredibly low, researchers ...

Researchers have suggested that the Earth may once have had rings just like Saturn over 400 million years ago ... a professor at Monash University's School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment in ...

New geological evidence suggests that Earth might once have been encircled by a ring of debris, much like Saturn. This ...

Until scientists learn more then, here are seven of the most fascinating discoveries they’ve made about Saturn so far. The ...