A temporary “mini-moon” will whirl around Earth for about two months as our planet’s gravity captures a small asteroid in its orbit.

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 ...

You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than ...

A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...

Researchers have found evidence suggesting that our planet may have once had a ring system around 466 million years ago.

Research suggests Earth might have once boasted a spectacular ring similar to Saturn's, formed from an asteroid breakup ...

Earth may have had a Saturn-like ring system long ago, created from the debris of a passing asteroid that our planet tore ...

Earth may briefly have had a ring system similar to Saturn ’s over 450 million years ago during a period of unusually intense ...

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

A weird number of craters are located close to the equator, and the odds that this is random are incredibly low, researchers ...

Earth may have had a giant ring of space rocks surrounding it, similar to those around Saturn, which could have led to ...