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

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 ...

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.

Recently the Minor Planet Center (MPC ... issued a retraction because 2018 CN41 turned out to be Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster launched into orbit in February 2018. Morning sky: All the planetary ...

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 ...

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

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., ...

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 ...

"The Tesla case is not an isolated case," astronomer Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian center, told Space.com ... as they travel around the planet. That's not the case for space ...