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.

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“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 ...

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 ...