Professor John Chiang of UC Berkeley explains the impact of Earth's axial tilt and orbital eccentricity on global climate. He highlights their influen ...

The impact on the oceans if the Moon disappeared would be much smaller tides, about one-third the size of what they are now.

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The moon's ascending node (the point in the sky where its orbit crosses the ecliptic from south to north) is moving westward ...

Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...

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Whether life could survive on such an extreme world is unknown. On Earth, our seasons are driven by our planet's 23.4-degree tilt; for instance, northern summer occurs when our planet's northern ...

Ranking the 40 greatest individual seasons in MLB since 1940 is no easy endeavor. But MLB Network did just that, revealing its top 40 seasons on Sunday night. To say the list is impressive is an ...

The climate on such a world must be beyond bizarre. A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away. The planet, known as HD ...

while the tilt affects how extreme those seasons are. The knock-on changes from a super-Earth – dubbed Phaeton by the researchers – were intriguing. "If it's one or two Earth masses, which is still a ...