There's a bright "star" shining in the east after dark. It's Jupiter, which is now approaching it's biggest, brightest and ...

In fact, Solar Orbiter will go where no spacecraft has gone before by moving farther and farther away from the ecliptic plane ...

The invisible points in the sky where the moon’s path crosses the ecliptic plane are called either the north node (in the northern hemisphere) or the south node (in the southern hemisphere).

The Mercury challenge: With the ecliptic—the centerline of the zodiac and plane of Earth’s orbit—making a shallow angle with ...

It follows the ecliptic, the plane of the solar system, stretching upward through Leo, Cancer, and Gemini. Its tip might even encompass the red glow of Mars, which now lies in western Cancer to ...

because the ecliptic is the plane of our solar system, and only by seeing this plane edge-on would they see any transits or ...

(The Moon's orbital plane is flattened back toward the ecliptic, at just a 5.1° inclination.) This means the Moon drifts north and south over the course of a lunar month, above and below its own ...

The original eccentricities of the orbits of both planets and satellites would be considerably reduced; the inclination to the plane of the ecliptic would be small at the commencement, and would ...