The Solar Dynamics Observatory's AIA 304 camera delivered this amazing image of Venus over the active Sun during the first few hours of the Venus Transit. On June 5-6 2012, SDO is collecting images of ...

Skywatcher Roy MacLellan sent this Venus transit photo taken on June 5, 2012, from Trenton, Ontario in Canada. Skywatcher Gerry Beth Buckel sent in his photo of the June 5, 2012, transit of Venus, and ...

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 ...

The last chance most of us will ever have to see the planet Venus pass in front of the sun is coming up this Tuesday (June 5). Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free ...

Much of the world will be able to witness a rare skywatching event on June 5, as Venus crosses the face of the sun in a spectacle that will not be visible again for more than a century. But for anyone ...

Scientists are gearing up for the upcoming transit of Venus, an extremely rare opportunity to watch the planet Venus pass in front of the sun as seen from Earth. Venus is due to make this cosmic ...

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

A transit is the crossing of a planet or any star in front of the Sun. Mercury and Venus are the only planets of the solar system that can make transits, because they are closer to the Sun than the ...