Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...

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 ...

Natural cycles in Earth's rotational axis and its orbit around the sun drive climatic changes, and now researchers have ...

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 ...

Orbital precession greatly influences North ... of slight changes in the shape of the Earth's orbit around the sun (eccentricity) on modulating the strength of the precessional beat.

Keep your eye on the ball” is a motto for many athletes—and for astronomers trying to find Earth-threatening space rocks ...

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 ...

It features an orbital period of 18.94 hours and an eccentricity of 0.54. The pulsar's mass is under 1.6 solar masses, with a companion mass of at least 0.07 solar masses, suggesting a total ...

Solar radiation received at low-latitude is principally affected by variations in the cumulative effect of eccentricity and ... the interactions between orbital parameters are major external ...

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 ...