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 ...
Uranus and Neptune also have rings. And now, a new study published in the scientific journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters seems to show that Earth itself once had a similar ring.
Earth may have sported a Saturn-like ring system 466 million years ago, after it captured and wrecked a passing asteroid, a new study suggests. The debris ring, which likely lasted tens of ...
The research team believes the impact pattern was produced after a large asteroid had a close encounter with Earth, breaking apart due to tidal forces and forming a debris ring around the planet.
Researchers have found evidence suggesting that Earth may have had a ring system, which formed ... [+] around 466 million years ago. Scientists have found evidence that Earth may have once had a ...
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