Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

The U.S. energy company AES Energy wants to build a large renewable ... Armazones as a location of its next generation sky-observing super-machine — the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT).

YR4 has a 2.8% to 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see how much of a risk the space rock poses.

The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world's largest visible- and infrared-light telescope — is currently under development on the Cerro Armazones ...

The predicted locations range from uninhabited or sparsely populated areas to densely populated ... The asteroid is also being tracked by the Magdalena Ridge Observatory in New Mexico, the Danish ...

The ELT, under construction near Mount Armazones, is set to be the world’s largest visible-light telescope ... due to its clear skies and remote locations. The country has passed regulations ...

Typically large telescope construction and operation costs scale up faster than their collecting area. This slows scientific progress, making it expensive and complicated to increase telescope size.