The ALMA radio telescope array in the Atacama Desert temporarily halted operations after a rare snowfall blanketed the base ...

What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a study recently posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to ...

For many decades, the McMath-Pierce telescope was the largest solar telescope in the world, standing at 110 feet tall (33 meters), with a 26-foot-diameter (8 m) platform.

Feb 12, 2018 Feb 12, 2018 Updated Dec 3, 2018; 2 min to read. 1 of 4 The giant Mayall 4-meter telescope, on the right at Kitt Peak National Observatory, will be transformed into ...

The European Space Agency's Gaia mission detected an exoplanet 12 times more massive than Jupiter and a brown dwarf. ... The WIYN 3.5-meter Telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in ...

The transforming exoplanet that was observed by the WIYN 3.5-meter telescope at the U.S. National Science Foundation Kitt Peak National Observatory has a strangely elongated orbit. Credit: Images ...

Kitt Peak is also home to a pair of Spacewatch telescopes helping to find any Near-Earth-Asteroids that could threaten our planet. Plus, the 3.5 meter WIYN telescope is looking for other planets ...

Using the WIYN 3.5-meter telescope at the U.S. National Science Foundation Kitt Peak National Observatory, a Program of NSF NOIRLab, astronomers have discovered the extreme orbit of an exoplanet ...

Rockosi led the commissioning of the instrument at the 4-meter Mayall telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, and her present role is as an instrument scientist, helping to keep it running in top ...

Kitt Peak's Mayall Telescope was also used to discover methane ice on Pluto in 1976. ... The first is that it has a large light-collecting area with a 3.8-meter-diameter [12.5 feet] ...

Meanwhile, the cloud of gas resembling the festive tree glows in green optical light, as seen with the National Science Foundation’s WIYN 0.9-meter telescope on Kitt Peak in the Arizona-Sonoran ...