Researchers have found evidence suggesting that our planet may have once had a ring system around 466 million years ago.

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 millions of ...

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

A new study from Monash University scientists suggests that Earth may have had a ring system that formed around 466 million ...

Birth of a Ring The reconstructed locations of impacts during the Ordovician Period. These impacts are suggested to be from a disintegrated asteroid that passed too close to Earth. Credit: Tomkins and ...

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 ...

Tomkins and his team reconstructed an unusual rise in the number of meteorite impacts known as the Ordovician impact spike, determining that a ring slowly decaying in Earth orbit could be a ...

The fossils that these layers contain are world-famous for the details that they record about life on Earth during the Late Ordovician Period. Besides preserving pieces of Earth's history, limestone ...

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 ...

Earth may briefly have had a ring system similar to Saturn ’s over 450 million years ago during a period of unusually intense ...

This surprising hypothesis, published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, stems from plate tectonic reconstructions for the Ordovician period noting the positions of 21 asteroid impact craters.

A new study has proposed the hypothesis that 'Earth also had a ring during the Ordovician period, about 488.3 million to 443.7 million years ago.' Evidence suggesting that earth had a ring in the ...