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 ...

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

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 ...

A huge 75-foot-tall square boulder deep in Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains has been baffling people since it was discovered.

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Ancient artifacts can tell the story of humanity and how we evolved technologically, spiritually, and emotionally. However, sometimes archaeologists find ...

The Earth: a ringed planet, much like Saturn, surrounded by a hula hoop of asteroids. The summit of Mount Everest: a tropical ...

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

“Over millions of years, material from this ring gradually fell to Earth, creating the spike in meteorite impacts observed in ...

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 ...

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.