The ring would have gradually fallen to Earth as meteorites, correlating to a spike of impacts seen in the geological record.
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a photo of Earth and the moon. It was the first time both the Earth and the moon were ...
Earth and Saturn might be a lot more similar than previously thought. In a new study, a team of researchers suggests that 466 ...
A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...
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 ...
By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter's moon Io—the most volcanically active location in the solar system—Cornell ...
New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...
Research suggests Earth might have once boasted a spectacular ring similar to Saturn's, formed from an asteroid breakup ...
“Over millions of years, material from this ring gradually fell to Earth, creating the spike in meteorite impacts observed in ...
Earth may have sported a Saturn-like ring system 466 million years ago, after it captured and wrecked a passing asteroid, a new study suggests. The debris ring, which likely lasted tens of millions of ...
Did Earth once look a lot more like Saturn? Scientists believe the answer is yes! In a groundbreaking study, researchers in ...
Researchers believe a ring system around Earth could have contributed to the global cooling event known as the Hirnantian ...