Planet watchers with a clear view to the west-southwest can find Venus and Mercury tonight through next week. Venus is much brighter and easier to see and located about five degrees (three fingers ...

Virtually all space probes that explore the sun from space view our star from the ecliptic. This is the plane in which the planets orbit the sun. Although this plane is slightly tilted relative to the ...

The moon's shadow only hits the Earth when the line of nodes is pointed toward the Sun. On Sunday, March 10, at 09:00 UTC (5:00 a.m. EDT), our natural satellite will pass between the Earth and the sun ...

As chair of the Physics Department at St. Michael’s College in Colchester, Alain Brizard anticipated that he would need to assemble answers to common questions about why total solar eclipses occur and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The Ecliptic Festival is a four-day event (April 5-9) near ...

Adventurous music, knowledgeable speakers, a little comedy, great scenery -- oh, and a total solar eclipse -- are all part of the Ecliptic Festival at Cedar Glades Park in Hot Springs. The event, ...

An investigation is underway after a man was hospitalized following a stabbing at a northwest Harris County home on Friday. Read full article: Man flown to hospital after stabbing at northwest Harris ...

A large number of spacecraft have been sent to space over the years to study the star in our solar system, but they all tended to follow the same recipe: they lined up in orbit around the Sun within a ...

A study of comet motions indicates that the Solar System has a second alignment plane. Analytical investigation of the orbits of long-period comets shows that the aphelia of the comets, the point ...