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

Earth naturally cycles between ice ages and warm periods based on three astronomical cycles: precession (Earth’s wobble), obliquity (tilt), and eccentricity (orbit shape). Scientists can now predict ...

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

Researchers have been testing Milankovitch's theory for the past 100 years. Notably, a 1976 study found geological evidence showing that two of Earth's parameters — obliquity and precession, or ...

And the position of that oval in space shifts a little with each orbit; we call that orbital precession. Finally, the tilt of Earth's rotational axis, a property known as obliquity, changes as it ...

It has long been recognized that the degree to which deformation in the overriding plate is partitioned into translation and rotation is strongly influenced by this obliquity. However, this ...

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“The prediction is that the next ice age will begin within the next 10,000 years,” Barker told Live Science, before adding that the accumulated effects of greenhouse gas emissions, which most climate ...

Most of the year, the moon ends up either under or over the Earth’s shadow. Because of this obliquity, the alignment of the moon with the Earth’s plane of movement to create a total lunar ...

Obliquity primarily determines how much sunlight hits the poles, while precession governs the intensity of sunlight in equatorial regions. (Image credit: Robert Simmon, NASA GSFC) The results from ...