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 ...

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 ...

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.

“So, if Earth destroyed and captured a passing asteroid around 466 million years ago, it would explain the anomalous ...

There are more than 100 million objects orbiting the Earth at speeds of up to 23,000 miles per hour, making collisions with critical equipment potentially disastrous, space officials say.

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.

A 1,100-pound metal ring from a rocket smashed in to a Kenyan village, where it startled residents and flattened trees ...

It has been more than a week since reports first emerged about a "glowing ring of metal" that fell from the sky and crashed near a remote village in Kenya. According to the Kenya Space Agency, the ...