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 ...

Star trails streak above the Mayall 4-meter Telescope, in a long-exposure photo taken at Kitt Peak National Observatory southwest of Tucson. New research using the 52-year-old telescope has led to ...

This image was captured at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona. The Milky Way shines bright over the Kitt Peak National Observatory. (Image credit: ...

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 ...

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

Everything in space – from the Earth and Sun to black holes – accounts for just 15% of all matter in the universe . The rest ...

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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 ...

Donna Marie, nee Ligtenberg, Schrage died peacefully in the memory care unit of the Tucson Place Nursing Home in Tucson on June 14, 2025, one day before her 40th wedding anniversary. She was born in ...

The sprawling view from the top of the mountain at Kitt Peak National Observatory. 🗺️ Distance from Tucson: 1 hour | 📍 Google Maps | Website. Looking for a Tucson day trip that’s out of this world?