On January 2, astronomers identified an object as asteroid 2018 CN41, but later confirmed to be Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster, ...

An object that was incorrectly identified by an amateur astronomer as an asteroid has turned out to be a Tesla Roadster.

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

What was believed to be a new asteroid spotted flying close to our planet this month turned out to have Earthly, albeit unnatural, origins. On Jan. 2, the asteroid-tracking Minor Planet Center (MPC) ...

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

Catch Tallahassee Astronomical Society’s free planetarium show “February Skies over Tallahassee,” at the Fogg Planetarium on Feb. 1.

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

The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (United States) had to withdraw the discovery when it realized that it was a ...

However, the Minor Planet Center (MPC), the agency responsible for cataloging asteroids, quickly retracted the classification ...

Researchers have admitted to mistakenly identifying Elon Musk's car as a near-Earth asteroid, highlighting the importance ...