Kitt Peak National Observatory, located about 56 miles from Tucson, Arizona, boasts two dozen telescopes for professional research, plus an extensive menu of programs for public visitors.

The view of our home galaxy lit up the night sky at the U.S. National Science Foundation's Kitt Peak National Observatory in ...

Kitt Peak National Observatory is celebrating 60 years of welcoming visitors to the moutnaintop collection of telescopes 55 miles southwest of Tucson.

The Kitt Peak National Observatory is located on I’oligam Du’ag (Manzanita Bush Mountain) at an altitude of about 6,900 feet. The observatory is 56 miles southwest of Tucson in the Schuk Toak ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Less than 50 miles from Tucson, Kitt Peak National Observatory is light years away when it comes to researching the universe.

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — On Friday, Kitt Peak National Observatory began a limited reopening program to welcome the public back after a three-year closure as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and ...

A fast-spreading wildfire southwest of Tucson burned through the property of the Kitt Peak National Observatory early Friday, but the damage to the world famous telescope site was not known ...

Kitt Peak National Observatory is an astronomical research facility located on the land of the Tohono O’odham Nation in the mountains of Tucson, Arizona, and the observatory is run by the ...

Allen, Kitt Peak’s director, thinks her observatory will be ready for those next big things. Tucson was recently selected for the NOAO’s new Data Lab, built to help astronomers utilize ...

Ever feel as though your future is truly written in the stars? Not in the sense of destiny or fate, but rather that the stars ...

TUCSON, Ariz.—Federal funding for a massive telescope atop Kitt Peak in southern Arizona is set to end Dec. 31 but efforts are under way to find a way to keep it operational. The National ...

Kitt Peak National Observatory, a program of the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab, was founded in 1958. The site has more than 20 telescopes, the largest of which, the Nicholas U. Mayall ...