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 ...

On Sept. 22, the fall equinox formally heralds in autumn and marks the end of summer in the Northern Hemisphere.

We know Mars once had an active geological past, filled with water, volcanic activity, and dynamic geological changes. Now, ...

The Earth rotates along an imaginary line that runs from North ... The day is a bit longer at higher latitudes than at the equator because it takes the sun longer to rise and set the closer you get to ...

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

A newly discovered doughnut shape in Earth's outer core may reveal elements that help drive the formation of the planet's ...

Earth may have sported a Saturn-like ring system 466 million years ago, after it captured and wrecked a passing asteroid, a new study suggests. The debris ring, which likely lasted tens of millions of ...

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 ...

A ring of asteroid debris could have orbited Earth for tens of millions of years, and perhaps even have altered the planet's climate ...

providing new insights into Earth’s magnetic field dynamics. This region, which lies at low latitudes parallel to the equator, was detected using novel seismic wave analysis methods. Scientists at ANU ...