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 ...

Earth-like exoplanets might be more common throughout the Milky Way than previously believed, astronomers report in a new ...

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.

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

A rare alignment with a distant star gave NASA an unprecedented view of Uranus’s atmosphere, rings and mysterious heat.

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

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 ...

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.