Before that happened, however, the ring would have a profound effect on the climate on the ground. The 23-degree tilt of the ...

During a tumultuous period for our planet around 466 million years ago, Earth was pelted with meteorites and rocked by tsunamis. But geologists have uncovered some strange things about this moment in ...

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.

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.

But in principle, Earth could acquire a persistent ring system as long as it was within its Roche limit. So let’s look at the new evidence that this was, in fact, once the case.

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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 ...

The new study asserts that Earth's ring formed around 466 million years ago and stuck around for around 40 million years before dissipating.