It has been a little over seven years since SpaceX first test-launched its powerful Falcon Heavy rocket. The February 2018 launch also shot SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's personal Tesla Roadster into ...

Elon Musk's Tesla Is Still Floating in Space After 7 Years The red Tesla Roadster was mistaken for an undiscovered asteroid by astronomers.

Still, mistaking a spacecraft or human-made object for an asteroid is troublesome for the Minor Planet Center, which is tasked only with identifying naturally occurring objects.

Still, mistaking a spacecraft or human-made object for an asteroid is troublesome for the Minor Planet Center, which is tasked only with identifying naturally occurring objects.

The Minor Planet Center (MPC), responsible for the designation of minor bodies in the solar system such as asteroids and comets, seemingly mistook the roadster for a small body in space in January.

Very quickly, though, the Minor Planet Center very quickly went back on its estimates after revealing it was not an asteroid but the very Tesla Roadster that Musk blasted off into space seven ...

Elon Musk Launched His Tesla Roadster Into Space 7 Years Ago—It Was Just Seen Again Elon's famous red Roadster was spotted in space last month.

The finding of an asteroid by an amateur astronomer was noted at the start of the year by researchers at the Minor Planet Centre at the Centre for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian. But after a ...

Astronomers announced the discovery of a new near-Earth asteroid, which turned out to be Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster launched in 2018.

The discovery of a new asteroid this month has turned out to be Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster launched by SpaceX in 2018.

Recently the Minor Planet Center (MPC) announced the discovery of a new asteroid – 2018 CN41. Its orbit was closer than that of the Moon making it a near-Earth object and subject to the ...