The new study asserts that Earth's ring formed around 466 million years ago, and stuck around for around 40 million years ...
The ring would have gradually fallen to Earth as meteorites, correlating to a spike of impacts seen in the geological record.
“Over millions of years, material from this ring gradually fell to Earth, creating the spike in meteorite impacts observed in ...
A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...
Researchers have found evidence suggesting that our planet may have once had a ring system around 466 million years ago.
New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...
Did Earth once look a lot more like Saturn? Scientists believe the answer is yes! In a groundbreaking study, researchers in ...
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 ...
Earth may have had a giant ring of space rocks surrounding it, similar to those around Saturn, which could have led to chaotic meteorite strikes on our planet's surface, new research suggests.
Earth may briefly have had a ring system similar to Saturn’s over 450 million years ago during a period of unusually intense meteorite bombardment, a new study proposes. Scientists assessed 21 ...
The rings of Saturn are some of the most famous and spectacular ... my colleagues and I present evidence that Earth may have had a ring. The existence of such a ring, forming around 466 million ...
Saturn has a ring around it that is mostly made of ice, but it is also known that Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, and some asteroids have rings other than Saturn. A new study has proposed the hypothesis ...