As strange as that sounds, the car was launched in February 2018 and attached to the Falcon Heavy upper-stage booster.

The wannabe asteroid, announced on Jan. 2 as 2018 CN41, is actually a Tesla Roadster launched into space years ago by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. The company sent the car (with a spacesuit-clad mannequin ...

And thus, the Minor Planet Center logged a new object ... “So from that perspective, if you don’t know up front it’s a Tesla Roadster, there is no way to tell,” Veres added.

Recently the Minor Planet Center (MPC ... issued a retraction because 2018 CN41 turned out to be Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster launched into orbit in February 2018. Morning sky: All the planetary ...

However, the mystery object turned out to be a Tesla vehicle. The Minor Planet Center (MPC) quickly retracted the findings after discovering the object was a 2010 Tesla Roadster. Elon Musk’s SpaceX ...

A story you may have seen recently claims an asteroid spotted this month by an astronomer turned out to be a Tesla in space ... astronomer and the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, MA even ...

It has been a little over seven years since SpaceX first test-launched its powerful Falcon Heavy rocket. The February 2018 ...

A photo of “Starman” and Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster shared by SpaceX ... On Jan. 2, the Minor Planet Center (MPC) at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., ...

Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, launched into space in 2018, is still orbiting the Sun, covering 3.5 trillion miles and expected ...

An object in space that astronomers initially identified as an alarmingly close asteroid headed towards Earth turns out to be a Tesla ... with the planet. However the Minor Planet Center (MPC ...

An object in space that astronomers initially identified as a close-to-Earth asteroid turned out to be a Tesla electric ... However, the Minor Planet Center, which officially names and tracks ...