VENUS is perhaps the most singular example from among the divinized abstractions that make up the Roman pantheon. The word venus, in its origin, is a neuter noun of the same kind as genus or opus. It is discernible in the derived verb venerari...

The second planet from the Sun, Venus is often called Earth's "sister planet" because it is the closest planet to Earth and because the two planets are nearly identical in size and mass. Venus gets its name from the Roman goddess of love and beauty...

(Latin=love, sensual desire) Old Italic goddess of spring and gardens, native to Latium. It was not until the beginning of the third century BC that her cult reached Rome. Her feast—the Veneralia—was celebrated on 1 April. Under the...

Venus was one of the last planets to be explored, despite its position as the closest planet to Earth. This is largely because it is perpetually shrouded in a uniformly bland covering of clouds. The cloud cover made looking at Venus through a telescope...

The VENUS (Victoria Experimental Network Under the Sea) project is a cabled sea floor observatory, operated by the University of Victoria consisting of fibre optic cables connecting oceanographic instruments on the sea floor of the Pacific Ocean off the...

David Denton welcomes Leeds' appropriately named new concert hall Seated on top of the BBC North Headquarters in the Quarry Hill arts complex, The Venue is the latest addition to the growing arts scene in Leeds. A gift to the Leeds College of...

Venus Directed by Roger Michell Miramax Opens December 21 Old Man's Still Got It Peter O'Toole gets randy in a welcome starring role Maurice Russell, a septuagenarian actor facing the end of his career and life, gazes raptly...

I tried it once, and nothing terrible happened. So here, for our second attempt at live-blogging the Open, I'll be presenting a running account of the women's semifinal between Venus Williams and Justine Henin at Arthur Ashe. If you feel like taking part in the...

Nearby Venus is looking a bit more Earth-like with frequent bursts of lightning confirmed by a new European space probe.For nearly three decades, astronomers have said Venus probably had lightning — ever since a 1978 NASA probe showed signs of electrical activity in its atmosphere....