Evidence suggests Earth had a ring system 466 million years ago, causing a surge in meteorite impacts and possibly ...

Researchers have found evidence suggesting that our planet may have once had a ring system around 466 million years ago.

The ring would have gradually fallen to Earth as meteorites, correlating to a spike of impacts seen in the geological record.

Back when the Earth was crawling with trilobites and other strange shelled creatures, our planet may have had a ring just like Saturn's. This ancient ring system is thought to have formed about ...

Earth may have had a giant ring of space rocks surrounding it, similar to those around Saturn, which could have led to ...

Kevin Gill via Wikimedia Commons Astrophysics was once so crazy in love with Earth, it put a ring on it. But the engagement didn’t last, and the halo formation fell away. While the Beyonce ...

The Earth: a ringed planet, much like Saturn, surrounded by a hula hoop of asteroids. The summit of Mount Everest: a tropical ...

researchers have found evidence suggesting that Earth may have had a ring system that formed around 466 million years ago, at the beginning of a period of unusually intense meteorite bombardment ...

C ould Earth once have had a planetary ring like the ones around Saturn? Scientists from Monash University in Australia think ...

Saturn’s rings are iconic, but new evidence suggests Earth might once have sported one of its own. This ring would have caused chaos on the surface. We know Earth has gone through a lot of ...

To reach that surprisingly conclusion, scientists studied the positions of 21 asteroid impact craters during the Ordovician period – the second of six periods in the ...

Instead, they believe that they may have come from a ring around Earth, similar to Saturn’s rings. It might sound strange to think Earth had rings. However, researchers say it’s actually very ...