The mission, funded and commanded by a cryptocurrency entrepreneur, was launched by SpaceX on Monday and has grabbed ...

An analysis of two decades of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided fresh insights into the complex ...

SpaceX's Fram2 mission has captured the first-ever space video of Earth's polar regions. Launched from NASA's Kennedy Space ...

Earth’s climate has long been shaped by subtle but powerful shifts in its orbit. These slow, predictable changes drive the planet in and out of ice ages over tens of thousands of years.

The ice-giant planet Uranus, which travels around the sun tipped on its side, is a weird and mysterious world. Now, in an ...

Earth's history is a roller-coaster of climate fluctuations, of relative warmth giving way to frozen periods of glaciation before rising up again to the more temperate climes we experience today.

It has been assumed that changes in the Earth's orbit around the sun are responsible for the ice age cycles. It is now clear how this works. An international research team may have discovered ...

Scientists have long recognized a connection between Earth's orbit and ice ages. However, due to challenges in accurately dating climate changes that occurred so far in the past, they struggled to ...