This chart shows the times of "contact" between Venus and the sun during the transit of Venus for major cities on June 5, 2012. This example of the tool at transitofvenus.nl, is set for observing ...

Many people around the world were thrilled to see a transit of Venus in June (June 5 in the United States and June 6 in Asia, on the other side of the International Dateline), the dark silhouette of ...

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Did you miss the transit of Venus in front of the sun yesterday? Were there clouds in your skies? Stuck in Antarctica? If you didn’t catch this last alignment of our cloud-shrouded planetary neighbor ...

On June 5, 2012, at 6:03 p.m. EDT, the planet Venus will do something it has done only seven times since the invention of the telescope: cross in front of the Sun. This transit is among the rarest of ...

New movies of the transit of Venus on 6 June 2012, viewed from two different locations on Earth, clearly show the parallax effects that have made Venus transits so important historically. The results ...

Astronomers around the world looked to the sky last night and this morning to observe Venus as it passed across the face of the Sun for the last time this century. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) ...

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Unless you were born yesterday you’re probably never going to see another transit of Venus. Only seven of them have ever been observed and the next one is in 2117. So here are some beautiful images to ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American In a matter of hours, lucky observers with ...