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 ...

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., ...

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 ...

The red Tesla Roadster was mistaken for an undiscovered asteroid by astronomers.

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.

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 ...

Astronomers announced the discovery of a new near-Earth asteroid, which turned out to be Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster launched ... Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center, astronomers were left ...