The National Science Foundation's funding freeze, and wider confusion about the status and future of science funding, is ...

The desert city in southern Arizona is a sanctuary for stargazers—and now it's even easier for visitors to explore.

New research from Mathew Madhavacheril and Ph.D. candidate Joshua Kim of the University of Pennsylvania and their collaborators has combined cosmological data from two major surveys of the universe’s ...

A key recommendation of the panel called for the creation of a national observatory — a vision realized in 1958 with the establishment of the Kitt Peak National Observatory in the Quinlan ...

Across cosmic history, powerful forces have acted on matter, reshaping the universe into an increasingly complex web of ...

The Universe really seems to be expanding fast. Too fast, even. A new measurement confirms what previous -- and highly debated -- results had shown: The Universe is expanding faster than predicted by ...

Robert McMath is honored alongside his colleague, Keith Pierce, as the namesake of the McMath-Pierce solar telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory. Robert and his father are also honored ...

With her sultry drawl and feline charisma, the singer and actor oozed sophistication. But Eartha Kitt, who was born on 17 January 1927, had the toughest of childhoods. In History looks at how she ...

The blaze threatened the observatory and communications infrastructure at the peak. Later, an observatory official said it appeared to be under control. By Alexandra E. Petri The Eaton fire ...

Around a fifth of all staff working for the organisation that looks after the Peak District National Park could be affected by a restructure as a result of "unprecedented financial pressures".