Earth is an extraordinary place, filled with remarkable creatures and landscapes that often surpass our understanding un ...

Best alcohol advent calendars of 2024 to ring ... the planet. Sit down to sip on something new every day until December 25 (with the included Glencairn tasting glass, no less) with 24 x 30ml drams ...

Some animals are born with a rare condition called albinism, which means they lack pigment or melanin in their skin. Thi ...

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, ...

The ring might have acted like a giant sunshade, causing a cooling effect that might have unleashed an ice age.

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 ...

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 ...

the asteroid’s debris rained down onto Earth, creating the pattern of craters, sediments and tsunamis we describe above. You may know that Saturn isn’t the only planet with rings. Jupiter ...

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.

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 ...

As the asteroid passed within Earth's Roche limit, it broke apart due to tidal forces, forming a debris ring around the planet—similar to the rings seen around Saturn and other gas giants today.