After taking over the former Ecliptic Brewing space in North Portland, Von Ebert Brewing's new location is open.

including smoked beef cheeks on Friday, brisket on Saturday and a Sunday special that’s still TBD. What: Von Ebert’s new brewery and taproom is set to open in the old Ecliptic Brewing space ...

NORTHEAST — Fine dining fans have a new spot to try in Lansdowne Social, a restaurant helmed by chef Martin Pfeifer and maitre d’ Owen Perry. It specializes in a $75 five-course dinner served at a ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC HELSINKI — China plans to send a space observatory out of the plane of the ecliptic for a mission to study the poles of the sun. The Solar Polar Orbit Observatory ...

Eclipses don't happen every month because the moon orbits Earth on an orbital path that's slightly different from the ecliptic (the sun's path through our daytime sky). Although that orbital path ...

The planets in our solar system orbit the sun essentially along the same line across the sky in a plane called the ecliptic. For that reason, planets in our Earthly sky always appear somewhere ...

The ecliptic is also the reason that we on Earth sometimes observe planets appearing to approach closely to each other in the sky "while they careen around the cosmic racetrack," according to NASA.

Interestingly, they'll always appear along the same arc in the night sky. That path is called the ecliptic, and it exists because all planets in our solar system orbit around the sun on roughly ...