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 for ...

A newly discovered asteroid spotted orbiting alarmingly close to Earth turned out to be a Tesla car that Elon Musk launched into space six years ago. The object was first spotted by an amateur ...

In a twist, the space community briefly thought they'd discovered an unusual object zipping through space. But the reality turned out to be far more terrestrial. In 2018, Elon Musk’s SpaceX tried a ...

SpaceX streamed video of the Tesla Roadster in space after the launch. Time flies when you're floating aimlessly through the cold, inhospitable wasteland that is space. And it's already been seven ...

The Minor Planet Center (MPC) initially classified a near-Earth object (NEO), designated 2018 CN41, as a newly discovered asteroid based on observations from citizen scientists. This was later ...

Elon Musk is responsible for unleashing a mystery " asteroid" that has been spotted orbiting the Earth and closer than the Moon. Scientists with the Minor Planet Centre (MPC) designated extra ...

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Earlier this month, an amateur astronomer ...

A strange object initially thought to be a newly discovered asteroid actually turned out to be a Tesla zipping through space. The "asteroid" was designated 2018 CN41 on January 2 by the Minor Planet ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Time ...