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

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

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.

Elon Musk’s sense of humor is out of this world. Seven years after the SpaceX CEO launched a Tesla Roadster into orbit, astronomers from the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center ...

Astronomers mistook a Tesla Roadster that was launched into orbit in 2018 for an asteroid earlier this month. The registry of what was thought to be an asteroid was soon deleted.

“So from that perspective, if you don’t know up front it’s a Tesla Roadster, there is no way ... exactly where the objects they send to space are going. It’s a problem exacerbated by ...

“So from that perspective, if you don’t know up front it’s a Tesla Roadster, there is no way ... exactly where the objects they send to space are going. It’s a problem exacerbated by ...

Astronomers announced the discovery of a new near-Earth asteroid, which turned out to be Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster ... how far space exploration, and perhaps space junk, can go.