His Eminence Giovanni Cardinal Lajolo, the President of the Pontifical Commission for the Vatican City State, will visit the offices of the Vatican Observatory Research Group at the University of ...

Nearly 7,000 feet above the Sonoran Desert, the air gets so clear that the Milky Way stretches overhead like spilled sugar ...

A wildfire outside of Tucson, Arizona has claimed four buildings at the Kitt Peak National Observatory, a major astronomical research centre. The buildings included some housing and two minor ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Four non-scientific buildings at the Kitt Peak National Observatory southwest of Tucson were lost in a wildfire, but early indications show other buildings on the property didn’t ...

Hillary Mathis helped construct one of the most unusual astronomical instruments ever conceived. She was still an undergraduate when she worked on a set of nine cartridges designed to hold circular ...

PHOENIX — Stargazing: Easily one of the most relaxing and beautiful activities. But did you know one of the best stargazing sites in the nation could be right in your backyard? (Well, kind of.) The ...

Bits of the region’s star-gazing history are the focus of Monday’s Public Evening at Steward Observatory, which will mark its 90th birthday Tuesday. Tom Fleming, the Steward astronmer who organizes ...

The Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT) on Mount Graham in southern Arizona celebrated its 30th anniversary this month, and the observatory has several days worth of celebrations planned for ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — The first images of the universe from the world's largest digital camera are now available for us to see and it all comes from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. Dr. Sidney Wolff, ...