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

Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, launched into space in 2018, is still orbiting the Sun, covering 3.5 trillion miles and expected ...

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

An astronomer there verified the finding. And thus, the Minor Planet Center logged a new object, asteroid “2018 CN41.” Within 24 hours, however, the center retracted the designation.

an organization collecting data on small celestial bodies in the solar system, announced the discovery of an unusual asteroid, designated 2018 CN41. Submitted by a citizen scientist, the object ...

But after a day, they removed the thing, which was identified as 2018 CN41, after realising it wasn’t a natural object—rather, it was a Tesla tied to a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. How did Elon Musk’s ...

Stupid because space junk is space junk. Last month an amateur astronomer discovered what appeared to be the “asteroid”— designated 2018 CN41—when it seemed to be passing very close to Earth.

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 ...

In this 2018 handout photo provided by SpaceX, a Tesla Roadster launched from the Falcon Heavy rocket with a dummy driver named "Starman" heads towards Mars.

"I first went to JPL's Small Body Database to quickly take a look at the Earth close approach dates and potential Mars close approach dates, to see if I could correlate those to a known ...