We often like to tout Southern Arizona gems that lead the nation or are even unique in the world. This is one of those spaces: Kitt Peak National Observatory ...

Behold the golden-orange horizon over Kitt Peak National Observatory, a fiery twilight moment where day bows out and the stars prepare their grand entrance. Captured by NOIRLab, this sunset reveals ...

KITT PEAK — The threat to the Kitt Peak Observatory from the Alambre Fire has been greatly reduced as officials announced Tuesday night that the blaze is 50 percent contained. The fire grew to 6,118 ...

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On a warm June evening, viewers in Arizona watched the sky burst with color from the clouds of gas and dust that help create our home galaxy, the Milky Way. The Milky Way galaxy is around 100,000 ...

Officials at Kitt Peak National Observatory have unveiled what they’re calling the first public science center ever built inside a working telescope, but that’s not its only claim to fame. It also ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory—a program of NSF NOIRLab—in Arizona ...

A pale orange glow stands as proof of the efforts of a global network of scientists. Today, researchers with the Event Horizon Telescope array revealed the first direct image of a black hole. “We have ...

Arizona skywatchers got treated to both a beautiful sunset and a blazing comet streaking across the skies.