This approach allowed the team to determine how the three orbital factors -- tilt, wobble, and the shape of Earth's orbit around the Sun -- interact to drive ice age cycles over the past 900,000 ...

the precession of its rotational axis and the shape of Earth's orbit around the sun. Obliquity refers to Earth's tilt.

Beginning around 2.5 million years ago ... match these changes with small cyclical variations in the shape of Earth's orbit ...

"We are a bit surprised about its origin in the central main asteroid belt, which is a location in the asteroid belt that we did not think many Earth ... to its orbit around the sun — offers ...

A description of why and how the shape of the Moon appears to change when seen from the Earth. The Moon is lit by the Sun. Half of the ... As the Moon starts to orbit Earth we can see more and ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, which is roughly the size at which an asteroid could take out a city, or ...

An asteroid called 2020 CD3 was bound to Earth for several years before leaving the planet’s orbit in 2020 and another called 2022 NX1 became a mini-moon of Earth in 1981 and 2022 and will return ...

A description of why and how the shape of the Moon appears to change when seen from the Earth. The Moon is lit by the Sun. Half of the ... As the Moon starts to orbit Earth we can see more and ...