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

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

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

The “asteroid” wasn’t a space rock after all. It was a cherry-red Tesla Roadster that Elon Musk launched into space to much ...

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 ...

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But astronomers put the brakes on the exciting discovery 17 hours later — after learning they’d mistaken a cherry-red sports car for an asteroid. The Tesla Roadster had been blasted into the ...

The agency confirmed instead that the object in question is a cherry-red Tesla Roadster that Elon Musk launched into space during the first flight of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket. Photo provided ...

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

Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes difficult pursuit of tracking deep-space objects.

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