They mapped changes in ice sheet volumes using data from fossilized deep-sea organisms, then compared this data to the Earth's oval-shaped orbit around the sun, a phenomenon called orbital ...

Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...

Pluto, for example, has a highly elongated orbit compared to the planets in our solar system and has an orbital eccentricity ...

Glacial cycles aren’t random; they follow a predictable rhythm dictated by Earth’s orbit. A study analyzing climate records ...

Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...

and eccentricity on the rhythmic advance and retreat of ice sheets. A major challenge in determining the precise influence of orbital variations on glacial cycles lies in the striking similarity ...

Earth's last ice age ended around 11,700 years ago and a new study predicts the next one should be 10,000 years away. But the researchers say record rates of fossil fuel burning that are increasing ...