Technicians at Kitt Peak National Observatory's Cherry Ave. shops on the University of Arizona campus, look over the steel cell upon which the 80-inch mirror will be mounted.

The view of our home galaxy lit up the night sky at the U.S. National Science Foundation's Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona. On a warm June evening, viewers in Arizona watched the sky ...

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

Kathryn F. Neugent and Philip Massey of Lowell Observatory compared light measurements they made over the past year to readings taken by Massey at Kitt Peak in 1988 and 1999.

Kitt Peak National Observatory, a a program of the National Science Foundation's NOIRLab, hosts the recently retired McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope. According to NOIRLab, the solar telescope honors ...

New evidence suggests the universe might not behave as expected, raising questions about the costs of being wrong.

Kitt Peak Observatory, Arizona tribal community evacuated for wildfire The Kitt Peak National Observatory and a nearby tribal community in southern Arizona have been evacuated because of an ...

The Rubin team in central Chile is operating with cooperation from a vast global network with major centers in Lyon, France; ...

On June 19, 2004, at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson, Arizona, astronomers Roy Tucker, David Tholen, and Fabrizio Bernardi discovered Asteroid Apophis. This Near-Earth Object (NEO ...

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