Simulations reveal that the annual temperature cycle in the Pacific cold-tongue region is influenced by the shape of Earth’s orbit, as well as by the planet’s axial tilt. Together, these influences ...

The general outlines of the ice ages of the last several million years are pretty well understood. The timing of the glacial cycles has been controlled by cycles in Earth’s orbit, with the temperature ...

Full moon, new moon. High tide, low tide. These are dependable rhythms of our planet. It is not surprising then, that news of a “wobble” in the moon’s orbit — one with implications for the growing ...

Has the moon seemed exceptionally noticeable this winter? There’s a reason: The full moon currently never sets for many Alaskans. During the winter of 2023-2024, we are passing through a period when ...

ABSTRACT Orbital precession changes the seasonal distribution of insolation at a given latitude but not the annual mean. Hence, the correlation of paleoclimate proxies of annual-mean precipitation ...

Thanks to data from ESA's Mars Express mission, combined with models of the Martian climate, scientists can now suggest how the orbit of Mars around the Sun affects the deposition of water ice at the ...

The European Space Agency’s orbiting X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton, has proved the existence of a “gravitational vortex” around a black hole. The discovery, aided by NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic ...