NASA’s Juno spacecraft has detected an unusual new variety of plasma phenomenon occurring over Jupiter's north pole.

A rocky planet with a 24-hour orbit and an ice giant that takes five years to complete its orbit have been detected orbiting ...

Stars and planets are naturally associated with one another. While some planets have gone rogue and are drifting through space, the vast majority are in solar systems, where they're gravitationally ...

On July 1, 2025, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey telescope, located in northern Chile, ...

Thanks to its newly tilted orbit around the Sun, the European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft is the first to image the Sun's poles from outside the ecliptic plane. Solar Orbiter's ...

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 European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter, which launched in 2020 from Cape Canaveral, captured the first-ever images of the sun's south pole.

Thanks to its newly tilted orbit around the Sun, the European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft is the first to image the Sun’s poles from outside the ecliptic plane. Solar Orbiter ...

Related: The brightest planets in March's night sky: How to see them (and when) All of the naked-eye planets, as well as the moon, closely follow an imaginary line in the sky called the ecliptic.

What is a planetary alignment? 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 ...

What is a planetary alignment? The planets in our solar system orbit the sun essentially along the same line across the sky in a plane called the ecliptic.

What is a planetary alignment? The planets in our solar system orbit the sun essentially along the same line across the sky in a plane called the ecliptic.