Did a Passing Star Cause Earth to Warm 56 Million Years Ago?

About 70,000 years ago Scholz's star passed through the Oort Cloud. It may have perturbed some comets from the Oort Cloud. But we won't know for a couple of million years because that's how long it would take for a comet to reach us.

Antarctic Ice Core Unlocks 1.2 Million Years of Unbroken Climate History

An international team of scientists has extracted a 2.8 kilometers long ice core in Antarctica, hitting the frozen continent’s bedrock. The core represents a chronological register of Earth’s climate and atmosphere