When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Artist's impression of Earth with a temporary ring system, consisting of debris from a passing ...

Saturn's iconic rings will seemingly "disappear" from view this weekend as they align edge-on with Earth for the first time since 2009. Every 13 to 15 years, the planet's rings align perfectly with ...

The rings, believed to be made up of rocky and icy chunks that could be as large as a house, help separate Saturn from other ...

Earth may have had rings like Saturn many, many millenia ago. However, the formation didn't last long, and it eventually collapsed, falling to the surface of our planet, leaving craters where pieces ...

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 466 ...

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. The ...

Due to a transition in Saturn's planetary axis, Earth's ability to perceive Saturn's vibrant rings will be in "perfect ...

To come to the theory, researchers closely studied Earth's Ordovician period 485 million to 443 million years ago. Not only was it one of the coldest periods in our planet's history, the time period ...

Saturn sports some of the coolest bling of any planet in our solar system. Its nine rings, which are mainly comprised of dust, rock and ice, have been the subject of scientific research for years.

A weird number of craters are located close to the equator, and the odds that this is random are incredibly low, researchers say. Reading time 3 minutes Astrophysics was once so crazy in love with ...

Today, only the largest planets in the solar system have rings, but a new study suggests Earth may have been a ringed planet in the distant past. Scientists studying the geology of the Ordovician ...