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

Astronomers have retracted the discovery of a new asteroid after realizing the object was the remains of Elon Musk's Tesla ...

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

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

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

Scientists spotted a new asteroid—turns out it was Musk’s Tesla Roadster. Who knew space junk could be this expensive… or ...

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.

An amateur astronomer submitted evidence of a new near-Earth asteroid that turned out to be the Tesla Roadster that SpaceX launched into space in 2018. . | Credit: SpaceX via Getty Images Astronomers ...

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 ...