The "Great Bear" of the constellation Ursa Major will become visible around the time Mercury slips out of view, with the ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft returns first-ever data of the Sun collected from a 17-degree tilted ...

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint mission between the European Space Agency and NASA, is the first to venture into a ...

That is because Earth, the other solar system planets, and all other modern spacecraft orbit the sun in a flat disc around it called the "ecliptic plane." This European Space Agency (ESA) sun-orbiting ...

Origin of "Ecliptic" Although the moon's orbit is inclined 5.5 degrees to the Earth's orbital plane, periodically there will come times when it crosses over the ecliptic.

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter captured the first-ever images of the sun's south pole in March, which were released this week.

The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter mission — which is taking photos of the sun while raising its orbit beyond the ecliptic plane — might provide answers, but until then, researchers ...

The other week, we talked about the signs of the zodiac (don’t worry, we’re not going into astrology again) and about the ecliptic. I feel like I sometimes throw around these terms and don’t ...

For the first time in history, we re seeing the Sun from an angle no one ever has: from above and below its poles. Thanks to ...

The alignment plane of the solar system is the plane where planets orbit the sun. ... and most of the bodies moving roughly the same orbital plane, which is known as the ecliptic.

In the Solar System, the planets and most other bodies move in roughly the same orbital plane, known as the ecliptic, but there are exceptions such as comets.

While Voyager 1’s mission has been to explore the outer solar system, researchers could tweak a similar flight path to launch a satellite above the ecliptic plane to image the solar system. In ...