The view of our home galaxy lit up the night sky at the U.S. National Science Foundation's Kitt Peak National Observatory in ...

The Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson has one of the ... from the U.S. Board on Geographic Names and the University of Arizona, civil engineer George J. Roskruge named the peak after ...

A fast-burning wildfire shut down all operations at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, home to one of the largest collections of astronomical instruments in the United States. The National ...

Located in the mountains outside Tucson, Arizona, the Kitt Peak National Observatory was threatened last week by the ongoing Contreras Fire. While the blaze has affected more than 20,000 acres and ...

An Arizona observatory is providing unrivaled views ... Associate Director at Kitt Peak National Observatory. Upon making the trek to the mountaintop campus, 56 miles outside Tucson, visitors ...

A raging wildfire is "mostly holding" at Kitt Peak National Observatory, which remains too ... all the telescope domes remain standing, the Arizona facility remains an "active fire fighting ...

The Contreras Fire, which has been raging through the Arizona mountains since last week, has reached Kitt Peak National Observatory, threatening the site’s telescopes. Kitt Peak National ...

A lightning-caused wildfire that led to an evacuation of the Kitt Peak National Observatory southwest of ... The University of Arizona, which has had a telescope at the site since 1962, is a ...

PHOENIX – The Kitt Peak National Observatory and a nearby tribal community in southern Arizona have been evacuated because of an encroaching wildfire, authorities said. The observatory was ...

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 ...