Most kids learn in elementary school that the seasons are caused by Earth rotating on a tilted axis during its yearly orbit ...

International research covering the past million years of global glaciations shows that small changes in the tilt of the Earth's axis – obliquity – is important for triggering the end of ice ages, or ...

As levels of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide rise and warm the globe, Antarctica's ice will become more vulnerable to cycles on an astronomical scale, particularly the tilt of our planet is as it ...

How does the Earth's orbit influence our daylight and temperatures? As the Earth orbits the sun, it spins around an axis – picture a stick going through the Earth, from the North Pole to the South ...

Scientists have long debated what causes glacial/interglacial cycles, which have occurred most recently at intervals of about 100,000 years. A new study reported in the March 24 issue of Nature finds ...

Grab your flower crown and staff because it’s officially summer, baby. On Friday morning, 10,000 people gathered at Stonehenge to greet the Northern Hemisphere’s summer solstice — a tradition that has ...

Informing how birds know when and where to stop migrating, researchers using nearly a century’s worth of data report that the Eurasian reed warbler – a songbird that migrates between sub-Saharan ...

How does the Earth's orbit influence our daylight and temperatures? As the Earth orbits the sun, it spins around an axis – picture a stick going through the Earth, from the North Pole to the South ...

Earth’s axis is tilted away from the sun at the December solstice and toward the sun at the June solstice, spreading more and less light on each hemisphere. At the equinoxes, the tilt is at a right ...