Still, even if Earth's rings were made of rock, that might not mean they would look dark. Moon rock is largely grey, and the moon reflects only about 12% of the light falling onto it.

What might Earth be like crowned with rings? Space and science- fiction illustrator Ron Miller created extraordinary images of how the sky might look if Earth possessed such rings.

Upgraded ALMA images expose hidden rings and spirals around baby stars, indicating planets begin taking shape mere cosmic ...

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature could explain a climate shift at the time.

The researchers' idea that Earth once had rings comes from reconstructions of Earth's plate tectonics from the Ordovician period—which ran between 485.4 million years and 443.8 million years ago ...

Ron Miller, from io9 put together these "Artist impression" images of how Earth would look with Saturn's rings (equipped with some information about exactly what we are seeing in each shot). He ...

If Earth had rings, Congress would have even more glory to bask in, according to this Ron Miller illustration. Ron Miller The sunsets would be impossibly beautiful.

Figuring out the day length of Earth is more complicated than you might imagine. While on average a day is 24 hours long, ...

Rings form from solid bodies coming too close to a planet. There is a range called the Roche limit: Within the limit, the tidal forces of the primary body – in our case the Earth – would be ...