Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

The equator, an imaginary line dividing the Earth into hemispheres, influences unique phenomena. It dictates weather patterns ...

New research provides compelling support for the "Snowball Earth" theory. This hypothesis suggests that Earth was entirely ...

The researchers have based their hypothesis on the positioning of nearly two dozen impact craters -- all placed within 30 ...

This study presents the first physical evidence that Snowball Earth reached the heart of continents at the equator.' ...

Nearly two dozen impact craters known to occur during this time were all within 30 degrees of Earth’s equator, signaling that the meteoroids may have rained down from a rocky ring around the ...

Evidence from Colorado suggests glaciers once covered Earth to the equator, supporting the Snowball Earth theory. This ...

Ever since the term “Snowball Earth” was first proposed in a 1992 paper, it has prompted substantial debate among scientists.

The team's hypothesis calls for a temporary ring around Earth, which would explain why impacts were constrained to a ...

Geologists have uncovered strong evidence from Colorado that massive glaciers covered Earth down to the equator hundreds of ...