A cone of zodiacal light intersects the iconic Milky Way, creating an x-shape in the night sky. NOIRLab highlighted this ...

Half a dozen planets - Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - will put on a dazzling display in the sky on ...

Ancient observers realized that the Moon does not track the ecliptic perfectly. This is because the Moon’s orbit is inclined 5.1° to the ecliptic, causing it to appear above or below the plane.

The rare six-planet alignment in August has stirred mounting enthusiasm among skywatchers. This week, four of the brightest ...

But because the angle of the ecliptic - the path the planets, sun and moon follow - is so shallow in the western sky in November, Mercury nearly scrapes the horizon. Venus does only a little better.

The bright band of the Milky Way and the faint glow of "zodiacal light" meet above the mountains of Chile's Atacama Desert in ...

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 is currently scheduled to ...