During a tumultuous period for our planet around 466 million years ago, Earth was pelted with meteorites and rocked by tsunamis. But geologists have uncovered some strange things about this moment in ...

And although the band of ancient craters is the only physical evidence such a ring ever existed, life on Earth likely ...

The temporary structure likely consisted of debris from a broken-up asteroid. Earth may have sported a Saturn-like ring system 466 million years ago, after it captured and wrecked a passing ...

Impact craters found around the Earth that were made around the same time could be linked to debris falling from a ring, a new study suggests. By Becky Ferreira If you were to look up from Earth ...

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, over ...

For instance, any object the size of Earth's moon that fell below about 7,365 miles (11,850 km) from Earth's surface would disintegrate, forming a ring around the planet.

A false-color satellite photo from 2023 shows a devilish pair of lava flows and an enormous plume of smoke spewing from ...

A recent study claims that Earth may have once had a ring. The theory would explain the presence of an odd density of impact craters around the equator dating back to the Ordovician period.

RING AROUND THE WORLD In September, ... Space Earth had new, temporary radiation rings last year By Lisa Grossman February 19, 2025. Astronomy ...

In Sept. 2012, NASA’s Van Allen Probes observed the radiation belts around Earth had settled into a new configuration, separating into three belts instead of two. Scientists think the unusual… ...

Humans are polluting space so much that Earth may soon have a “ring” like Saturn Saturn's famous rings are a source of wonder and beauty — but Earth's rings may consist of our own greasy junk ...

Euclid’s new Einstein ring. The Einstein ring that Euclid spotted is located in the galaxy NGC 6505.It is only a hop, skip, and a jump away from Earth at 590 million light-years away.