The results, which the researchers call PhanDA, estimate global temperatures over the last 485 million years, going back to the end of the Cambrian, the period that saw the diversification of the ...

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 ...

I f astronomers had been walking the Earth 466 million years ago, they may have had something special to see. The moon and ...

The ring would have gradually fallen to Earth as meteorites, correlating to a spike of impacts seen in the geological record.

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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 ...

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

A newly discovered doughnut shape in Earth's outer core may reveal elements that help drive the formation of the planet's ...

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

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