By James WoodfordAfter a near miss with an asteroid 466 million years ago, Earth may have developed a Saturn-like ring of debris that lasted for tens of millions of years – and may have significantly affected the planet’s climate.

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

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