The wannabe asteroid, announced on Jan. 2 as 2018 CN41, is actually a Tesla Roadster launched into space years ago by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. The company sent the car (with a spacesuit-clad mannequin ...

“If we’re confused about whether something is an unknown asteroid or a Tesla Roadster, then it starts to cost us money to do things like tracking it or figuring it out.” That’s why better ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, has its next target in its sights: the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson. Currently 45 million miles (70 million kilometers) ...

An object in space that astronomers initially identified as a close-to-Earth asteroid turned out to be a Tesla electric car that Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched in 2018 as a stupid publicity stunt.

It has been a little over seven years since SpaceX first test-launched its powerful Falcon Heavy rocket. The February 2018 ...

A story you may have seen recently claims an asteroid spotted this month by an astronomer turned out to be a Tesla in space. Believe it or not, this one's true. In 2018, Elon Musk and SpaceX ...

Astronomers announced the discovery of a new near-Earth asteroid, which turned out to be Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster launched in 2018. The car, initially thought to be an asteroid, was later ...

In fact, it isn't even a natural object. The wannabe asteroid, announced on Jan. 2 as 2018 CN41, is actually a Tesla Roadster launched into space years ago by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. The company ...

The discovery of a new asteroid this month has turned out to be anything but. In fact, it isn't even a natural object. "The Tesla case is not an isolated case," astronomer Jonathan McDowell of the ...