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

Elon Musk and SpaceX reminisced about the first launch of its Falcon Heavy rocket seven years ago on Thursday.

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

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

While many trade partners sparring with the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump can’t go pound-for-pound with the ...

Seven years after SpaceX launched Elon Musk’s cherry red ... “So from that perspective, if you don’t know up front it’s a Tesla Roadster, there is no way to tell,” Veres added.

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.

It's been over seven years since Elon Musk first teased the second-generation Tesla Roadster ... says the Roadster will launch in 2025 with even more outrageous features, such as SpaceX-sourced ...

"The Tesla case is not an isolated case," astronomer ... satellites and missions into orbit and deep space. In 2024, SpaceX alone shattered records by launching 134 Falcon rocket missions.