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 ...

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Once upon a time, Earth may have sported a planetary ring of ... This raises the question: could Earth have had a ring, somewhere in its wild past? We are unlikely to find traces of it in space ...

And now, scientists hypothesize that Earth may have sported its own ring some ... new questions about the influence an ancient ring could have had on evolutionary development, Tomkins said.

And now, scientists hypothesize that Earth may have sported its own ring some ... new questions about the influence an ancient ring could have had on evolutionary development, Tomkins said.

Credit: Oliver Hull/Monash University Earth may have sported a Saturn-like ... have cut out or how much debris there would have had to be in the ring to lower the temperature on Earth," Tomkins ...

Instead, they believe that they may have come from a ring around Earth, similar to Saturn’s rings. It might sound strange to think Earth had rings. However, researchers say it’s actually very ...

Uranus and Neptune also have rings. And now, a new study published in the scientific journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters seems to show that Earth itself once had a similar ring.

“The idea that a ring system could have influenced global temperatures adds a new layer of complexity to our understanding of how extra-terrestrial events may have shaped Earth’s climate ...

An artist's conception of the Earth as it may have appeared 466 million years agoOliver Hull/Monash University If astronomers had been walking ... decorated with a ring system similar to the ...

The rings of Saturn are among the most famous and spectacular features in the solar system. Earth may once have had something similar. In a paper published in Earth & Planetary Science Letters ...