Every image you've ever seen of the sun is looking at its equator, because Earth's orbit sits there with a 7.25-degree tilt.

Like Earth, Mars is surrounded by an ionosphere—the part of its upper atmosphere where radiation from the sun knocks ...

A recent Venus flyby pushed the spacecraft out of Earth's orbital plane, allowing it to gaze at the solar poles.

Virtually all space probes that explore the sun from space view our star from the ecliptic. This is the plane in which the ...

The spacecraft's tilted orbit will allow scientists to investigate the mechanisms behind space weather that impact crucial ...

Solar Orbiter captures first-ever images of the Sun’s poles, offering insights into solar magnetism, atmospheric motion, and ...

The sun's south pole has been seen for the first time from outside the ecliptic plane in unprecedented images sent back to ...

A NASA mission to observe the activity of the solar wind has returned its first images of giant coronal mass ejections (CMEs) ...

Confusingly, the magnetic north and south poles are both down there, where the Solar Orbiter can see them Occupants of planet ...

The aurora borealis could appear tonight for viewers in the continental United States, including in Minnesota, North Dakota ...

Water in the great, cold nurseries where stars birth has a cosmic fingerprint. Astronomers using the James Webb Space ...