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

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.

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

This is because Earth will be positioned directly between Saturn and the sun, offering stargazers a spectacular sight — and a chance to catch a glimpse of the planet's rings before they turn ...

The ring might have acted like a giant sunshade, causing a cooling effect that might have unleashed an ice age.

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 ...

Saturn is famous for its rings, which make it look different from all the other planets in our solar system. However, the rings are likely to “disappear” in a few months. In March 2025 ...

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

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 ...