A study of sea surface temperatures and the thermocline, a subsurface water layer in which temperature decreases rapidly with depth, in the western equatorial Pacific over the past 142,000 years finds ...

Polaris's proximity to the North Celestial Pole varies due to Earth's precessional wobble, a cyclical shift of its rotational axis. This precession, caused by gravitational forces from the Sun and ...

Deposits in a Chinese cave tell the story of the region's climate stretching back more than 200,000 years, well past the last interglacial warm period — an invaluable resource for understanding the ...

Paleoclimate records for the last 400,000 years in the study region of Hajar mountains, Oman. This includes alluvial records of wetter (blue) and drier (orange) conditions from both the sample sites ...

Days were only 17 hours long, due to different dynamics between our planet and its satellite. Research recently revealed that the Earth and Moon had a much closer relationship about 2.5 billion years ...