On March 10, 1914, a woman entered the National Gallery in London, strode up to Diego Velázquez’s Venus at her Toilet, (ca. 1647–51) and began hacking at the masterpiece with a meat cleaver. The woman ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Things do not start well. Venus – or Aphrodite as she was originally called by the Greeks – was a ...

Venus was the goddess of beauty in ancient Rome and her brightly shining planetary namesake lives up to that hype. When Venus is in the evening sky, you notice her. When she is in the predawn sky, you ...

Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, will return to the evening sky around Feb. 14, just in time for Valentine’s Day. There is no better time to recognize this most amazing planet. Venus, the ...

Venus, goddess of love, emerges from the sea in Ottorino Respighi’s shimmering depiction of Botticelli’s classic painting, the Birth of Venus. Get your day off to a beautiful start, just after 9 a.m.

Developers in Gloucestershire, England, recently received a sign of the goddess of love’s favor, unearthing a Roman-era statuette believed to depict Venus at the site of a new construction project.

Scientists have spotted evidence of potential life on the planet Venus, though they emphasized that more work needs to be done to confirm whether or not life - possibly aerial microbes - exists or ...

Andrea Brillantes is turning 18 soon, and she decided to mark the milestone by channeling Venus, the goddess of beauty. The teen star had a photo shoot inspired by the Renaissance painting “Birth of ...