Image of Sun and Venus during transit of 2012 as seen by the Solar Tower atop Mount Wilson in Southern California. The angular diameter of Venus is larger than those of any of the sunspots located on ...

As Venus crosses the face of the Sun on 5/6 June for the last time in this century, Astronomers Without Borders will stream the event live to a worldwide audience from historic Mount Wilson ...

“There are two reasons,” says Mount Holyoke College astronomy professor Darby Dyar. “One is to study the greenhouse effect and how water was lost, which relates to climate change.” The other, she ...

The elevated area beneath the second phalange of the thumb surrounded by the Line of Life is called the Mount of Venus. Venus is known as the Goddess of Love and Beauty in Greek mythology. True to its ...

The Venus de Medici has been restored by a local reclamation firm A 200-year-old statue badly damaged by vandals at a country park in Cornwall has been repaired. The statue of Venus - or Venus de ...

Meteorologists at the Mount Washington Observatory in New Hampshire saw Venus shining bright as the International Space Station sailed across the sky Saturday evening. Observatory Staff Meteorologist ...

Vandals have destroyed a 200-year-old statue at a country park in south-east Cornwall. Police are examining the statue of Venus, at Mount Edgcumbe Country Park, in the hope of finding fingerprints.

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Darby Dyar is the deputy principal investigator for VERITAS ...