The Earth had a Saturn-like ring of its own once, a shocking new study has suggested

Beyonce did say that if you like something enough, you have to put a ring on it. And the same must have happened to humanity's favourite planet, Earth. According to fresh research, our world may have sported a colossal ring of space debris 466 million years ago, rivalling the iconic rings of Saturn. But more than being just for show, it may have sparked chaotic meteor showers and even helped trigger a planetary cold snap.A dramatic demiseIt all started when an asteroid, likely enormous in size, wandered too close to Earth’s Roche limit — a point where the planet’s intense tidal forces pull apart anything foolish enough to cross. Once here, the researchers have suggested that the asteroid likely met a brutal end, ripped to shreds and scattered around the equator, leaving Earth with a halo of