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# New Evidence: Earth Had Rings (and Might Regain Them)
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/pbs-space-time/episode/new-evidence-earth-had-rings-and-might-regain-them-ykbjbr/
- Published: 2025-04-29T14:15:52.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-21T13:47:28.000Z
- Description: There’s an extremely good chance that Earth once did have a ring system.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: PBS Space Time, Season 11, Episode 1, #ZZZ_Episode_f2fde134-32b5-4ede-93ee-e004ffae3cd7, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_ae70f836-13b6-4c9d-b61f-99f7b8bc29eb, #v1.16

There’s an extremely good chance that Earth once did have a ring system. At least, that’s the proposal by a recent study that has evidence that a mysterious burst in meteor activity nearly half a billion years ago was actually caused by that ancient ring system collapsing onto the Earth. And, you know, if we had a ring once maybe we can have one again.