Pluto, for example, has a highly elongated orbit compared to the planets in our solar system and has an orbital eccentricity of 0.25. Earth has an orbital eccentricity of just 0.02. This new ...

Earth's history is a roller-coaster of climate fluctuations, of relative warmth giving way to frozen periods of glaciation before rising up again to the more temperate climes we experience today.

Large radial velocity surveys have been ongoing on these different instruments and have yielded a whole population of exoplanets of all kinds, from hot Jupiters to systems of Neptune-like objects to ...

Changes in Earth's orbit have helped pace climatic change for millennia. Scientists are now trying to understand whether - and how - these changes remodeled the landscapes our ancient ancestors ...

then compared this data to the Earth's oval-shaped orbit around the sun, a phenomenon called orbital eccentricity. The authors found each glaciation period in the last 900,000 years followed a ...

Gonggong is a dwarf planet and a member of the scattered disc beyond Neptune. As of 2019, its distance from the Sun is 88 AU, and it is the sixth-farthest known Solar System object.