According to a discovery, planet Earth used to have a ring around it similar to Saturn ... which studied and focused on the impact of craters and asteroids during the planet's early years.

The satellite images suggest that the formation has an average ... this potential crater’. If the ring is confirmed to be created by a meteorite impact, the crater could be a major find ...

Nearly two dozen impact craters known to occur during this time ... we’re talking about,” Tomkins said. However, “this ring formation event we think may have happened only once in the ...

Upheaval Dome in Utah, a rock formation ... This ring may have triggered global cooling, contributing to the Hirnantian Ice Age. Evidence includes impact craters near the equator and meteorite ...

Around 2 billion years ago, an asteroid crashed near present-day Johannesburg, carving out what is now the world’s largest known crater. The impact initially put a dent in Earth’s surface that ...

(Related: "'Fresh' Crater Found in Egypt; Changes Impact Risk ... the shape of the structure with this inner ring can tell us about the exact formation process involved," he added.

Our dynamic simulations of peak-ring formation at Chicxulub are ... “Improved understanding of large-impact crater formation will enable us to assess the environmental effects of such impacts ...

However, that impact pales in comparison to the long-term beating Earth has endured since its formation ... is actually the eroded inner ring of a huge impact crater. An almost perfectly ...

The site is now considered a “strong contender” to be a meteorite impact crater ... a ring of small mountains surrounding Marsal Lake, roughly 60 miles north of Magpie, Quebec. The formation ...

But craters can have different shapes and features – Vredefort has a complex shape and is known as a multi-ring impact basin ... into the circular rock formation of Tnorala.” ...

The satellite images suggest that the formation has an average ... this potential crater’. If the ring is confirmed to be created by a meteorite impact, the crater could be a major find ...