The ring would have gradually fallen to Earth as meteorites, correlating to a spike of impacts seen in the geological record.

An effort to understand Earth’s past climates uncovered a history of wild temperature shifts and offered a warning on the ...

Lavas from hotspots - -whether erupting in Hawaii, Samoa or Iceland -- likely originate from a worldwide, uniform reservoir in Earth's mantle, according to an evaluation of volcanic hotspots.

The new study asserts that Earth's ring formed around 466 million years ago, and stuck around for around 40 million years ...

A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth's ...

At times during the past half-billion years, carbon dioxide warmed our planet more than previously thought, according to a ...

Researchers show the average surface temperature on our planet has shifted between 51.8 to 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit ...

Introduction Organized by the Science Mission Directorate’s Science Support Office (SSO), NASA hosted its 12th annual Earth ...

A timeline of 485 million years of Earth’s surface temperatures shows ancient greenhouse conditions were hotter than scientists thought.

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

Science News // 2 days ago SpaceX launches European Galileo satellites to medium-Earth orbit Sept. 17 (UPI) -- SpaceX ...

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