Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to a land covered with vegetation and lakes.

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Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

TMJ4's Rod Burks talked to fans in Green Bay Thursday to see who they want to see drafted to the Packers. Archaeologists in ...

Apparently, it’s moving further away from the Earth each year. At an annual rate of 3.82 centimeters, the moon's creeping ...

Our sun is wobbling, and this has a huge impact upon the regularity of many of Earth's meteor showers, according to a new ...

The study, published in March in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, says the dramatic ice melt would redistribute the ...

The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth.

The present paper studies the superposed effect of atmospheric and oceanic excitation on the free rotation of a viscoelastic gyro. In contrast to former investigations, period and damping of the Earth ...

Twenty years ago, as a docent at the local community observatory, I learned about earth’s wobble, properly known as axial procession. This movement takes approximately 26,000 years to complete a ...