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Earth May Have Had a Ring Like Saturn Once

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

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Could Earth Have Been Ringed Like Saturn? Scientists Think So

Research suggests Earth might have once boasted a spectacular ring similar to Saturn's, formed from an asteroid breakup around 466 million years ago. This event coincides with numerous meteorite impacts primarily around the equator and a subsequent period of significant global cooling.

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Earth used to have Saturn-like rings, new study suggests

Earth and Saturn might be a lot more similar than previously thought. In a new study, a team of researchers suggests that 466 million years ago, a ring system made up of asteroid remnants may have surrounded our planet,

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Scientists discover that the Earth only has six continents not seven

The Earth doesn’t have seven continents after all. From a young age, we're taught that the world consists of Africa, ...

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All about Zealandia, the Earth's potential 8th continent

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2-Minute Video Shows 1.8 Billion Years Of Earth’s Shifting Continents

In one of the most complete models ever put together, a new study has condensed 1.8 billion years of plate tectonics into a 2-minute video clip.

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Prehistoric Earth Was Very Hot. That Offers Clues About Future Earth.

At times during the past half-billion years, carbon dioxide warmed our planet more than previously thought, according to a ...

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Searching for Earth’s Oldest Rocks: Follow a Smithsonian Expedition to the Remote Northwest Territories

High in the Canadian wilderness, Smithsonian scientists search for ancient minerals that could explain the origins of the ...

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Earth May Have Once Had a Ring That Slowly Fell From The Sky

The hypothetical ring didn't last long, cosmically speaking – just a few tens of millions of years. But that was long enough ...

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Scientists have captured Earth’s climate over the last 485 million years. Here’s the surprising place we stand now.

An effort to understand Earth’s past climates uncovered a history of wild temperature shifts and offered a warning on the ...

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Witness 1.8 billion years of tectonic plates dance across Earth's surface in a new animation

Using information from inside the rocks on Earth's surface, we have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet over the ...

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New research reenvisions Earth's mantle as a relatively uniform reservoir

Lavas from hotspots - -whether erupting in Hawaii, Samoa or Iceland -- likely originate from a worldwide, uniform reservoir in Earth's mantle, according to an evaluation of volcanic hotspots.

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Earth may have once had a ring like Saturn – and it caused chaos

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

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