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 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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SpaceX streamed video of the Tesla Roadster in space after the launch. Time flies when you're floating aimlessly through the cold, ...

Recently the Minor Planet Center (MPC) announced the discovery of a new asteroid – 2018 CN41. Its orbit was closer than that of the Moon making it a near-Earth object and subject to the attention of ...

An object in space that astronomers initially identified as an alarmingly close asteroid headed towards Earth turns out to be a Tesla car that Elon Musk launched in 2018 as part of a publicity ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through the ...

Time flies when you're floating aimlessly through the cold, inhospitable wasteland that is space. And it's already been seven years since SpaceX test-launched its powerful Falcon Heavy rocket, ...