Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...
Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...
Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...
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 ...
Natural cycles in Earth's rotational axis and its orbit around the sun drive climatic changes, and now researchers have ...
Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...
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 ...
it follows a predictable pattern dictated by the distinct and deterministic influence of Earth's orbital geometry, according to a new study. The findings highlight the roles of precession, obliquity, ...
The team compared the changes in orbital parameters to the glacial periods over the last 900,000 years. Eccentricity varies over 100,000-year cycles (and a second one over 400,000 years).
It has a somewhat oval shape referred to as orbital eccentricity, with the Sun off-center in the oval, which means Earth's distance from the Sun changes throughout the year. And the position of that ...
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 ...