When a planet’s spin axis is tilted far from the vertical axis, it has a high obliquity. That means the equator barely gets any sunlight and the North Pole faces right at the Sun. CREDIT ...

Tilting toward a habitable exoplanet Ferreira and his colleagues used a model developed at MIT to simulate a high-obliquity "aquaplanet"—an Earth-sized planet, at a similar distance from its sun ...

We can never test the ideas. Planet 9 is different. Given its weird, extreme orbit, it would produce an asymmetrical tug on the Sun that, over time, could produce a tilt in its axis.

According to both teams, the addition of Planet Nine to the Solar System could have been enough to jostle the other planets away from the Sun's axis, causing the tilt we see today.

An artist's conception of what an ice-covered exoplanet might look like. A study looked at how a second planetary trait—the tilt of its axis—influences its climate. NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...

Of the planets in the solar system, Earth has the greatest orbital tilt relative to the sun’s axis of rotation, at an angle of 7.1 degrees. Science News sponsorship position.

Mars has lost immense amounts of water over it lifetime, and scientists aren't sure exactly how. New research hints that the planet's violently varying tilt may be a key factor.

Planetary Tilt Not A Spoiler For Habitation Date: August 26, 2003 Source: Penn State Summary: In B science fiction movies, a terrible force often pushes the Earth off its axis and spells disaster ...

Earth’s axis, on the other hand, only oscillates between 22.1 and 24.5 degrees, roughly every 10,000 years, which is why the blue planet has been so good to life for so long.

Since that time, Saturn's axis was thought to have been stable. In fact, Saturn's axis is still tilting, and what we see today is merely a transitional stage in this shift.

A recent groundbreaking study published in Geophysical Research Letters has revealed an astonishing new insight: Earth’s rotational axis has shifted 31.5 inches in less than two decades, largely due ...

None of the planets with increased tilt had permanent ice sheets near the equator. This, however, does not guarantee that a world is suitable for life, the researchers note.