Earth’s orbit around the Sun is not circular, but an ellipse. The perimeter of Earth’s orbit is roughly 584 million miles ...

Today, only the largest planets in the solar system have rings, but a new study suggests Earth may have been a ringed planet ...

"Compact yet beautifully expansive, Orbital invites us to observe the Earth's splendour, whilst reflecting on the individual ...

Orbital precession greatly influences North ... Model, proxy and isotopic perspectives on the East African Humid Period. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 307, 103-112 (2011).

Samantha Harvey’s novel 'Orbital' has won the Booker Prize. In a recent interview, she revealed that the book is more about ...

faecal and saliva samples” and monitoring “heart rates and blood pressure and sleep patterns” to satisfy some “grand abstract dream of interplanetary life” away from Earth. Orbital is a ...