Saturn is a planet widely recognisable for its iconic rings but a new study suggests Earth may also have had a similar ring system over 50 million years ago. As part of the research, 21 asteroid ...
The ring would have gradually fallen to Earth as meteorites, correlating to a spike of impacts seen in the geological record.
Earth and Saturn might be a lot more similar than previously thought. In a new study, a team of researchers suggests that 466 ...
A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...
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 ...
Researchers have found evidence suggesting that our planet may have once had a ring system around 466 million years ago.
Did Earth once look a lot more like Saturn? Scientists believe the answer is yes! In a groundbreaking study, researchers in ...
Earth may have had rings. At least that's what a new study published this month claims. Here's what we know so far.
A weird number of craters are located close to the equator, and the odds that this is random are incredibly low, researchers ...
New geological evidence suggests that Earth might once have been encircled by a ring of debris, much like Saturn. This ...