Griffith Jenkins Griffith desired to make science more accessible to the public and he gifted $100,000 to the city of Los Angeles to build an Observatory on top of Mount Hollywood. The Griffith ...

May schedule set: Open Tuesday–Friday from noon to 10 p.m., weekends from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., and closed on Mondays. Special events ahead: May programs include a May 7 Spaceballs screening, a May 17 ...

A person of interest has been taken into custody in Los Angeles after fire crews contained a massive blaze initially categorized as a major emergency burning near the historic Griffith Observatory.

The Griffith Observatory invited the public to join them on Thursday to welcome the start of spring, also known as the vernal equinox. A popular event, it drew a crowd to this annual moment when ...

GRIFFITH PARK, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- All eyes were on the sky for the Great American Eclipse on Monday, and crowds of thousands in Southern California gathered at the Griffith Observatory for the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Observatory's construction began in 1933 under Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration and was based on designs ...

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