The Kitt Peak National Observatory is about 50 miles outside of Tucson on a remote mountaintop that rises high above the Sonoran Desert. Just below the summit, the 4-meter Mayall telescope is the ...

The observatory remains an "active fire fighting" area. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A raging wildfire is "mostly holding" at ...

TUCSON (KVOA) - A month ago, the Contreras Fire burned nearly 30 thousand acres in the Baboquivari Mountains, threatening one of the largest collections of optical and radio telescopes in the world.

Kitt Peak National Observatory and the road leading up to it remain closed to the public, three weeks after a wildfire threatened the mountaintop collection of telescopes. It could take several more ...