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 April 5-8 ...

This week we can see something that many beginning sky watchers miss. I say we can “see” it, but in reality, it’s invisible except in our imaginations. The planets orbit our sun, and the moon orbits ...

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 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 ...

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 ...