Earth's climate has swung between ice ages and warmer periods for millions of years, driven by subtle changes in our planet's ...

Simulation results show that Mars, despite its similar size to Earth, has a considerable influence on the Milankovitch cycles ...

Changes in Earth's orbit have helped pace climatic change for millennia. Scientists are now trying to understand whether - and how - these changes remodeled the landscapes our ancient ancestors ...

A July 18 post (direct link, archive link) on X, formerly Twitter, features an illustration of the sun. "THE REAL REASON FOR CLIMATE CHANGE: The distance of where you are from the Sun is constantly ...

MOLINE, Ill. — It was in the 1920s that a Serbian geophysicist, Mulitin Milanković, theorized that variations in Earth's tilt and wobbling about its axis impact the amount of energy being received ...

Mars has always been a curious planet, often overshadowed by its larger neighbors, but recent research suggests that the Red ...

Nearly 10,000 years ago, Earth came out of its most recent ice age. Vast, icy swaths of land around the poles thawed, melting the glaciers that had covered them for nearly 100,000 years. Why, after ...

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL–The widely accepted theory that changes in Earth’s orbit drive cycles of glaciation can’t account for an early thawing of glaciers from the next-to-last ice age, according to ...