That means the spacecraft moved from the ecliptic plane, and tilted its orbit to 17 degrees in relation with the Sun's equator.

Last week saw scientists celebrating a breakthrough in bowel cancer prevention. The study, by the University of Edinburgh and the Cancer Research UK Scotland Centre, uncovered bowel cancer’s ...

A superbright Mars is currently visible alongside Regulus, the "Heart of the Lion" star located around 79 light-years from ...

A small tilt in the spin axis of the moon over the ecliptic plane causes seasonal incidence variation of solar illumination and, especially, causes significant temperature difference at the polar ...

If you treat the planets like dots and connect them, they would broadly appear to follow a curved line on the horizon. That line is called the ecliptic, and it looks similar to the arc-like path ...

Escaping the ecliptic plane takes some doing, by which I mean a lot of very expensive rocket fuel. The Solar Orbiter used Venus's gravity to help pull it out of the usual equatorial orbit around ...

Breaking free of the ecliptic plane is an immensely fuel-intensive maneuver, and until now, only the ESA/NASA Ulysses mission, which launched in 1990 and ended in 2009, has flown high enough to ...

Until now, all the views of the sun have come from the same vantage point - looking face-on toward its equator from the plane on which Earth and most of the solar system's other planets orbit, called ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter, in collaboration with NASA, has captured unprecedented images of the Sun's south pole from 40 million miles ...

Why? Because Earth, like all the planets in our solar system, orbits the sun along a line across a flat, disc-shaped plane in the sky known as the ecliptic. That means all the spacecraft we launch ...