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 ...

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

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

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

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

The auroras are set to dazzle parts of the northern US from June 23 to 25. Here’s how to watch the show unfold in the night ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, June 20The summer solstice occurs at this evening at 10:42 P.M.