Saturn is a planet widely recognisable for its iconic rings but a new study suggests Earth may also have had a similar ring system over 50 million years ago. As part of the research, 21 asteroid ...

I f astronomers had been walking the Earth 466 million years ago, they may have had something special to see. The moon and ...

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

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, ...

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Ancient Babylonian world map from a clay tablet, nearly 3,000 years old, reveals a version of the Noah's Ark story and ...

When it comes to operating beyond the limits of the known world into the world of imagination, [the tablet] is indispensable, ...

Although many lunar phenomena are one-night-only events, a ring around the moon is much less elusive. Also known as a lunar halo, a bright white ring of light around the moon can appear anytime ...

A cosmic event is set to occur in March 2025: Saturn’s iconic rings will become almost invisible to observers on Earth. This phenomenon ... Saturn’s orbit around the Sun takes about 29.5 ...

September could be a prime time to see vibrant auroras, thanks to a quirk of Earth's tilt that leads to more intense geomagnetic activity around the equinox. There's no guarantee, but there are ...