"Depending on where you are on Earth, you'll find more influence from precession or obliquity," he said. —Earth’s days once got 2 hours longer — and that may have triggered one of the ...

Notably, a 1976 study found geological evidence showing that two of Earth's parameters — obliquity and precession, or changes in Earth's axial tilt and how the axis wobbles around itself ...

A pattern of encroaching and retreating ice sheets during and between ice ages has been shown to match certain orbital parameters of Earth around the sun, leading to researchers being able to ...