An online website, from a historical perspective, of the study of the transit of Venus between the sun and the earth.

A lesson plan activity where students create a terrarium inside a plastic bottle using a Venus Flytrap and other plants. They then observe growth and changes over time.

Photograph of cuneiform script tablet in the British Museum. This tablet recounts observations of Venus and is from the 7th century B.C.E.

Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 - 8 January 1642) was a Tuscan (Italian) physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the scientific revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope...