I f astronomers had been walking the Earth 466 million years ago, they may have had something special to see. The moon and ...
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Researchers have found evidence suggesting that our planet may have once had a ring system around 466 million years ago.
A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...
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.
The ring would have gradually fallen to Earth as meteorites, correlating to a spike of impacts seen in the geological record.
The new study asserts that Earth's ring formed around 466 million years ago, and stuck around for around 40 million years ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
You may know that Saturn isn’t the only planet with rings. Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus have less obvious rings, too. Some scientists have even suggested that Phobos and Deimos, the small moons of Mars ...