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

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 ...

"It’s statistically unusual that you would get 21 craters all relatively close to the equator. It shouldn’t happen. They ...

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

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

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

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

Why doesn’t our planet look round when we’re standing in a park or looking out a window? An expert explains what you're ...

Scientists believe that ice sheets possibly surrounded the entire planet, even at the equator, where it is warmer today.

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

We have an extremely incomplete picture of what these snowball periods looked like, and Antarctic terrain provides different ...