Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes ...

The newly discovered asteroid, named 2018 CN41, turned out to be a Tesla launched into space by SpaceX in 2018.

The wannabe asteroid, announced on Jan. 2 as 2018 CN41, is actually a Tesla Roadster launched into space years ago by SpaceX ...

What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly-discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through the cosmos.

The Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of the presumed asteroid on January 2 - even giving it an official name of 2018 CN41 - before issuing an editorial change hours later saying the asteroi ...

According to SpaceX’s own calculation, the Roadster completed its first orbit around the Sun in August 2019 and made its ...

The Tesla Roadster, which was previously used by Elon Musk ... the joint European-Japanese BepiColombo mission and others — ...

It's been over seven years since Elon Musk first teased the second-generation Tesla Roadster, a futuristic sports car promising jaw-dropping acceleration and a rocket-powered boost. Yet ...

The Tesla Roadster, launched by SpaceX in 2018, was mistakenly identified as a near-Earth asteroid, raising concerns over ...

The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could ...

Catch Tallahassee Astronomical Society’s free planetarium show “February Skies over Tallahassee,” at the Fogg Planetarium on ...

“So from that perspective, if you don’t know up front it’s a Tesla Roadster ... vehicle before it was confirmed in 2022 to be a rocket booster from one of China’s past lunar missions.