Hike to a waterfall, eat at hidden-gem restaurants and go underground to explore Flagstaff's rowdy history. Here's your ...

Details: 1400 W. Mars Hill Road. $35, $20 for ages 6-17. 928-774-3358, lowell.edu. Arizona's darkest places: Here are the best dark-sky places in the state Sosta restaurant is a hidden ...

Vera Rubin fundamentally advanced our knowledge of galactic dynamics, laid the groundwork for dark matter research, and ...

Pluto was the little planet that could — until it couldn’t. Discovered in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, ...

Credit: David J. Eicher The observatory’s trustee, Lowell Putnam, addresses a large audience of scientists at the observatory’s annual meeting last week. Credit: David J. Eicher ...

Hours The Lowell Observatory is open from 12 p.m. to 10 p.m. every day except Tuesday. During summer (Memorial Day to Labor Day), it stays open until 11 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Tickets ...

NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

The astronomers who operate powerful Vera C. Rubin observatory released debut images June 23, 2025, showcasing just exactly ...

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The Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival will return to Lowell Observatory with two productions under the festival tent -- William Shakespeare’s "King Lear" and the "The Complete Works of William ...

The Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT), a 4.3-meter optical telescope operated by Lowell Observatory, is pictured on a clear winter day near Happy Jack, Arizona.