Ancient North American droughts were driven by Earth’s orbital shifts, study from the University of Helsinki finds.

Climatic changes of the last 18,000 years ... Monsoon climate of the early Holocene: Climate experiment with the Earth's orbital parameters for 9000 years ago. Science 214, 59-61 (1981).

Comets that have hit Earth have been a mixed bag. Early in Earth's history, during the solar system's chaotic beginning, they ...

Despite this incessant rain of junk battering the atmosphere, the amount of space debris increased over the course of 2024, ...

Milankovitch: Milutin Milankovitch (1879–1958), a Serbian mathematician who proposed that climatic changes, particularly ice ages, were the result of variations in the Earth's orbital elements.

The White House Office of Management and Budget dropped its "skinny" budget proposal for the federal government earlier this ...

In December, astronomers identified that the asteroid YR4 had a small but not insignificant chance of striking Earth in 2032, ...

The work that we’re doing is really important because warning time is everything,” says Danica Remy of the B612 Foundation in ...

Kosmos-482, a failed mission to Venus from the former Soviet Union that stalled in Earth orbit in the 1970s, is about to fall ...

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Intuitive Machines First Quarter 2025 Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in listen-only mode. After this week's ...

With 27 satellites now in orbit around the Earth, Amazon joins a growing number ... range of orbits rendered unusable.” The issue of orbital overcrowding is having effects now.