Earth May Have Had a Ring Like Saturn Once. ... I f astronomers had been walking the Earth 466 million years ago, ... though the land was still devoid of life.

If you were to look up from Earth some 466 million years ago, you might have seen a gleaming ring stretching across the sky, some scientists say.

We know what Earth looks like. Famously nicknamed the “pale blue dot” by Carl Sagan, our planet is a fairly small, rocky one with a moon, a thin atmosphere, a little bit of land, and a whole ...

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature could explain a climate shift at the time.

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 443.8 million years ago ...

Jupiter, eat your heart out. Our planet may have ripped apart an asteroid and worn its scattered debris as a ring for a while. 466 million years ago, Earth was an alien world. Trilobites swam ...

The 23-degree tilt of the Earth’s axis would have caused the ring to present its surface to the sun, casting a shadow in the atmosphere and on the ground below and causing global temperatures to ...

We know what Earth looks like. Famously nicknamed the “pale blue dot” by Carl Sagan, our planet is a fairly small, rocky one with a moon, a thin atmosphere, a little bit of land, and a whole ...

A Saturn-like ring on Earth. When a smaller object gets close enough to a planet, ... Furthermore, only 30% of Earth’s land surface suitable for preserving a crater was near the equator.

The rings of Saturn are some of the most famous and spectacular objects in the Solar System. Earth may once have had something similar. In a paper published last week in Earth & Planetary Science ...

Saturn’s rings are iconic, but new evidence suggests Earth might once have sported one of its own. This ring would have caused chaos on the surface.

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