Mercury reaches its greatest elongation, 26 degrees east of the sun on July 4. From latitude 40 degrees north, the ...

That line is called the ecliptic, and it looks similar to the arc-like path the Sun charts each day in the sky. But why do planets seem to follow the path of the Sun's movement?

The magnetic field drives the formation of sunspots, cooler regions on the solar surface that appear as dark blotches. At the ...

The Sun's polar regions are pretty busy and chaotic places, ... Escaping the ecliptic plane takes some doing, by which I mean a lot of very expensive rocket fuel.

ESA has now released the first pictures of the sun’s south pole, taken between March, when the spacecraft was orbiting at an angle 15 degrees below the ecliptic plane, and today, when it reached ...

Thanks to this, the spacecraft was capable of snapping the first images of the Sun's south pole from outside the ecliptic plane. The achievement took place back in March, ...

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 ...

The official marker of the summer season arrives tonight. It's the summer solstice, which has been celebrated for thousands ...

Until now. In March, a spacecraft captured the first-ever clear images of the sun's south pole, which the European Space Agency released Wednesday, June 11. “We reveal humankind’s first-ever ...

🌞 See the Sun from a whole new angle. For the first time, our Solar Orbiter mission has captured close-up images of the Sun’s mysterious poles, regions long hidden from our view.

That line is called the ecliptic, and it looks similar to the arc-like path the Sun charts each day in the sky. ... like a disc, known as the ecliptic or ecliptic plane.