University of Utah researcher Jake Abbott said that “Earth is on course to have its own rings.” “They’ll just be made of space junk,” he told the Salt Lake Tribune earlier this month.

According to NASA, there are approximately 100 million pieces of debris larger than a millimeter (about .04 inches) orbiting Earth, and about 23,000 of those pieces are larger than a softball.

"Earth is on course to have its own rings. They’ll just be made of junk." Wretched Garbage Planet. We've got a huge space junk problem — and it's only going to get worse as more and more ...

Earth's Space Junk Rings. According to the New York Post's latest report, Utah space experts have been studying various economic and safe methods to clean Earth's orbit from various debris.

Humans are polluting space so much that Earth may soon have a “ring” like Saturn Saturn's famous rings are a source of wonder and beauty — but Earth's rings may consist of our own greasy junk ...

What started out as a scary mystery in Kenya, rekindled the great debate about the dangers of human advancement.

Space junk, considered a type of pollution, has grown dramatically since 1957. We have 7,500 metric tons of junk in orbit – the equivalent of 1,100 elephants floating over our heads.

And although the band of ancient craters is the only physical evidence such a ring ever existed, life on Earth likely ...

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.

Earth and Saturn might be a lot more similar than previously thought. In a new study, a team of researchers suggests that 466 million years ago, a ring system made up of asteroid remnants may have ...