"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 ecliptic is the path the sun, moon, and planets take across the sky as seen from Earth. It defines the plane of the Earth's orbit around the sun. The name "ecliptic" comes from the fact that ...

Only when all three bodies (sun, Earth and moon) are on a straight line occupying the plane of the ecliptic can an eclipse occur. Hence the name "ecliptic": the place where eclipses occur.

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

A new study of the orbit of comets suggests that the plane of the ecliptic, where the Earth's orbit rests, may not be the only major alignment in the solar system. There may be a second caused by ...

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.