When we think of planets with rings, Saturn often comes to mind. However, new research suggests that Earth might have had its own ring system in the past. Scientists believe these rings were formed after an asteroid broke apart around 466 million years ago.

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

Earth may have had rings. At least that's what a new study published this month claims. Here's what we know so far.

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.

A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, according to a new study

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

A weird number of craters are located close to the equator, and the odds that this is random are incredibly low, researchers say.

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