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

Astronomers mistook a Tesla Roadster that was launched into orbit in 2018 for an asteroid earlier this month. The registry of ...

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 ...

According to the Minor Planet Center's notice regarding the deletion, turns out the object was the Roadster, along with the Falcon Heavy rocket's upper stage. The 2008 Tesla Roadster hitched a ...

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.

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 ...

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., ...

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

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 a close-to-Earth asteroid turned out to be a Tesla electric ... However, the Minor Planet Center, which officially names and tracks ...