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

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

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

The International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center issued a bulletin on Jan. 2 announcing 2018 CN41 as a newly discovered near-Earth object. NEOs include asteroids and comets. The MPC issued a ...

Seven years after SpaceX launched Elon Musk’s cherry red sports car into orbit around our sun, astronomers unwittingly began paying attention to its movements once again. Observers spotted and ...

an organization collecting data on small celestial bodies in the solar system, announced the discovery of an unusual asteroid, designated 2018 CN41. Submitted by a citizen scientist, the object ...

But after a day, they removed the thing, which was identified as 2018 CN41, after realising it wasn’t a natural object—rather, it was a Tesla tied to a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. How did Elon Musk’s ...

Stupid because space junk is space junk. Last month an amateur astronomer discovered what appeared to be the “asteroid”— designated 2018 CN41—when it seemed to be passing very close to Earth.

Tesla Roadster misclassified as an asteroid by the Minor Planet Center Error underscores growing issues with space debris tracking Experts call for better regulations ...

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 ...

Recently the Minor Planet Center (MPC) announced the discovery of a new asteroid – 2018 CN41. Its orbit was closer than that of the Moon making it a near-Earth object and subject to the ...

In fact, it isn't even a natural object. 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 ...