Researchers have found evidence suggesting that our planet may have once had a ring system around 466 million years ago.
In a discovery that challenges our understanding of Earth's ancient history, researchers have found evidence suggesting that ...
A new study from Monash University scientists suggests that Earth may have had a ring system that formed around 466 million ...
“Over millions of years, material from this ring gradually fell to Earth, creating the spike in meteorite impacts observed in ...
A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...
A recent study published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters reveals evidence that Earth may have had a ring similar to Saturn’s around 466 million years ago, during the Ordovician ...
ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES PLUS The researchers' idea that Earth once had rings comes from reconstructions of Earth's plate tectonics from the Ordovician period—which ran between 485.4 million years and ...
The Earth: a ringed planet, much like Saturn, surrounded by a hula hoop of asteroids. The summit of Mount Everest: a tropical ...
with a steep rise occurring during the Ordovician period. Back then, the world would have looked much different than it does today. Sparse patches of green slime or moss-like species may have spread ...