"Our observations indicate the presence of powerful iron winds, probably fuelled by a hot spot in the atmosphere." ...

Icelandic Danish artist Olafur Eliasson's eye-grabbing creations prove exhilarating at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Lucky ...

The Ocean Photographer of the Year Awards 2024 has once again brought together the most breathtaking images from our oceans.

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

Earth and Saturn might be a lot more similar than previously thought. In a new study, a team of researchers suggests that 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

However, researchers say it’s actually very notable that Earth didn’t have rings as far as we know through our own history. That’s because almost all of our solar system’s large planets ...

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.