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

Earth and Saturn might be a lot more similar than previously thought. In a new study, a team of researchers suggests that 466 ...

A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...

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

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 ...

I f astronomers had been walking the Earth 466 million years ago, they may have had something special to see. The moon and ...

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.

Andrew Tomkins receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The rings of Saturn are some of the most famous and spectacular objects in the Solar System. Earth may once have had something ...

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 ...

The rings of Saturn are some of the most famous and spectacular objects in the Solar System. Earth may once have had something similar. In a paper published last week in Earth & Planetary Science ...

After a near miss with an asteroid 466 million years ago, Earth may have developed a Saturn-like ring of debris that lasted for tens of millions of years – and may have significantly affected ...

The rings of Saturn are some of the most famous and spectacular objects in the Solar System. Earth may once have had something similar. In a paper published last week in Earth & Planetary ...