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 ...

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 ...

Astronomer Buell T. Jannuzi has been named to five-year term as the director of Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona. “NOAO and AURA conducted a worldwide search to find the best person ...

After more than six decades of staring off into space, Kitt Peak National Observatory still touts itself as a place with plenty to see. The world’s largest collection of major optical telescopes is ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Vivian Segundo has worked in the gift shop at Kitt Peak National Observatory for 26 years. Combing through items on a shelf in the shop, she rearranged memorabilia. As she did ...

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

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 ...

Kitt Peak National Observatory is reopening Home to one of the largest telescopes in the world, Kitt Peak National Observatory, just west of Tucson, is reopening to the public after a lengthy closure ...

Kitt Peak National Observatory is the future home of a state-of-the-art instrument that will be used to detect and characterize other worlds. The new instrument, an extreme precision radial velocity ...

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 ...

SELLS, Ariz. - Fire crews have fully contained a wildfire in southern Arizona that burned thousands of acres and damaged Kitt Peak National Observatory. The Contreras Fire is burning in a remote area ...

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