If we take the moon’s current rate of recession and project it back in time, we end up with a collision between the Earth and moon around 1.5 billion years ago. However, the moon was formed around 4.5 ...

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 ...

New research shows how sea ice growth in the Southern Hemisphere during certain orbital periods could control the pace of ice ages on Earth. Earth is currently in what climatologists call an ...

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 ...

Glacial cyclicity of the Earth has often been considered on 100,000 year timescales, particularly for the Late Pleistocene (~11,700 to 129,000 years ago) swapping between periods of extensive polar ...

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 ...

Experts will gather Saturday and Sunday at the Westin Mission Hills Resort in Rancho Mirage to examine ancient cultures and theories tied to the Great Year — otherwise known as the "precession of the ...