When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In this column, we'll focus on the ecliptic, the invisible "racetrack" that hosts the sun, moon ...

Indie star Angel Olsen is among the group of artists that has joined the lineup of Ecliptic, a singular four-day festival in Arkansas that will feature music performances, science presentations, ...

OVER the course of a year, the sun traces a path in the sky. This invisible line, called the ecliptic, isn’t created by the sun moving, but instead by Earth travelling around the sun. The solar system ...

A new study of the orbit of comets suggests that the plane of the ecliptic, where the Earth's orbit rests, may not be the only major alignment in the solar system. By tracking the point where ...

Of the imaginary coordinate lines that astronomers and navigators use in mapping the sky, perhaps the most important one is the ecliptic, the apparent path the sun appears to take through the sky as a ...

The four-day fest will culminate with rare views of a total solar eclipse, which won't happen again for 20 years. By Jason Lipshutz Editor Indie star Angel Olsen is among the group of artists that has ...