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

In fact, it isn't even a natural object. The wannabe asteroid, announced on Jan. 2 as 2018 CN41, is actually a Tesla Roadster ...

Space law academic states recent misidentification of asteroid—it was a Tesla Roadster heading to Mars!—reminds Earth ...

A story you may have seen recently claims an asteroid spotted this month by an astronomer turned out to be a Tesla in space.

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

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 ...

The citizen scientist assumed the mystery object was an undocumented asteroid and promptly sent ... if you don’t know up front it’s a Tesla Roadster, there is no way to tell,” Veres added.

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 ...