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 ...

June 22 marks the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory Greenwich, the home of the historic Prime Meridian that is ...

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.

Lowell Observatory and Meteor Crater, in partnership with B612 Foundation, will host a public event featuring distinguished speakers, telescope viewing, and family fun activities FLAGSTAFF, Ariz ...

Lowell Observatory historian Kevin Schindler said it’s spooky that the most preserved meteor crater on the planet sits in the backyard of the observatory. “So they’re studying things up in ...