A geologic map of the asteroid belt: Tracing meteorites back to their origins
Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...
The Daily Galaxy on MSN1d
Massive Volcanoes May Erupt in Sync With Earth’s Orbit— New Study Finds a Startling Link
New research suggests that Earth’s orbital variations—the slow changes in its tilt, axial precession, and shape of its ...
The Street Journal2d
Our next ice age is due in 10,000 years, but there’s a catch
Earth's last ice age ended around 11,700 years ago and a new study predicts the next one should be 10,000 years away. But the researchers say record rates of fossil fuel burning that are increasing ...
The Republican Herald3d
Starwatch: Last chance to catch the Little Ram
All winter long, I have been meaning to write about the little constellation Aries the Ram, and finally, on this last weekend of winter, I am getting around to it. It is a good thing because Aries ...
The Santa Fe New Mexican4d
Charles Ross Speaks the Language of the Stars
The world-renown light dispersion artist and the mind behind Star Axis in the New Mexican desert shows work never seen before ...
The next ice age is coming in 10,000 years — unless climate change prevents it
Natural cycles in Earth's rotational axis and its orbit around the sun drive climatic changes, and now researchers have ...
Earth's Orbit and Tilt Linked to Ice Age Cycles, Next One Delayed by Climate Change
Research links Earth's axial tilt to past ice ages, showing human-driven warming may prevent future glaciations.
When would the next ice age be? New study gives an astronomical timeline
A researcher with UW collaborated on the project to come up with the most precise predictive Ice Age model to date.
Nature15d
Science News a Century Ago
William Hopkins read the third part of his paper “On the phenomena of Precession and Nutation, assuming the Interior of the Earth to be a Heterogeneous Fluid”. The objects of researches of ...
National Geographic news19d
This asteroid might not hit Earth in 2032 after all—here’s how we know
Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids. NASA has a network of telescopes used to track near-Earth asteroids, like ...
IFLScience19d
Next Ice Age Should Be 10,000 Years Away – But Humans May Disrupt That
The subtle changes in orbit (eccentricity), the planet’s inclination compared to the orbit (obliquity), and the change in the direction of Earth’s rotational axis (precession) were possible ...
ScienceAlert19d
Study Reveals How Earth's Orbit Triggers Ice Ages, And There's One in The Next 11,000 Years
And the position of that oval in space shifts a little with each orbit; we call that orbital precession. Finally, the tilt of Earth's rotational axis, a property known as obliquity, changes as it ...