A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...
A weird number of craters are located close to the equator, and the odds that this is random are incredibly low, researchers ...
The rings of Saturn are among the most famous and spectacular features in the solar system. Earth may once have had something ...
Earth and Saturn might be a lot more similar than previously thought. In a new study, a team of researchers suggests that 466 ...
Saturn’s rings are iconic, but new evidence suggests Earth might once have sported one of its own. This ring would have ...
Researchers have found evidence suggesting that our planet may have once had a ring system around 466 million years ago.
Earth may have had a giant ring of space rocks surrounding it, similar to those around Saturn, which could have led to ...
The study said that the asteroid belt was formed due to the break-up of an asteroid passing within Earth's Roche limit.
I f astronomers had been walking the Earth 466 million years ago, they may have had something special to see. The moon and ...
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 ...
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.