Earlier this month, an amateur astronomer stumbled upon what appeared to be a newly discovered near-Earth object (NEO). The “asteroid,” designated 2018 CN41, came alarmingly close to Earth — closer ...

The newly discovered asteroid, named 2018 CN41, turned out to be a Tesla launched into space by SpaceX in 2018.

Less than 24 hours after the Minor Planet Center announced a new asteroid, it said the object was actually Musk's electric ...

What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly-discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through the cosmos.

The Minor Planet Center (MPC) deleted the new asteroid from its records just hours after announcing the discovery after realizing the object was actually a cherry-red Tesla Roadster ...

Major astronomy body the Minor Planet Centre (MPC) was forced to list the discovery - made by a citizen scientist - as "omitted" following a case of mistaken identity ...

Avi Loeb shares the story of how a Tesla Roadster had some astronomers convinced for a time that they had discovered a new ...

However, the Minor Planet Center (MPC), the agency responsible for cataloging asteroids, quickly retracted the classification ...

A day after the astronomers with the Minor Planet Center registered 2018 CN41, it was deleted on Jan. 3 when they revealed that it was in fact Musk’s roadster. The center said on its website ...

On January 2, the Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of the unique asteroid 2018 CN41, but soon had to remove the object from the official li ...

It looked like an asteroid, but it was a Tesla: the space mix-up involving the celestial object 2018 CN41 was resolved in a few hours. Initially cataloged as a new asteroid, it was later ...

An object in space that astronomers initially identified as an alarmingly close asteroid headed towards Earth turns out to be ...