"We didn't know what exactly to expect from these first observations – the sun's poles are literally terra incognita,” Sami ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Astronomers describe Mercury as an "inferior planet", because its orbital path around the sun is much closer than that of ...

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 ...

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.

This composite is made of images that were taken by Cassini’s camera system, the Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) on December 21, 2014 and received on Earth December 22, 2014. The camera was ...

The ecliptic is inclined with respect to the disk of the Milky Way by about 60 degrees. The empty ecliptic is also inclined by 60 degrees, but in the opposite direction.