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 ...

The Tesla Roadster and the mannequin "Starman" on the SpaceX Falcon Heavy upper stage, with Earth in background. SpaceX At the beginning of the year, scientists at the Minor Planet Center at the ...

What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through the cosmos. Yep, you read that right. The infinite vastness of outer space ...

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 ...

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 announced in January that an amateur astronomer discovered a new asteroid. However, the MPC deleted the object from its registry less than a day later. The reason? It was a ...

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 ...

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 ...