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 ...

The Tesla roadster launched on the Falcon Heavy rocket in 2018 with a dummy driver named "Starman" (main) and stock image of an asteroid (inset).

Astronomers mistook a Tesla Roadster that was launched into orbit in 2018 for an asteroid earlier this month. The registry of what was thought to be an asteroid was soon deleted.

The discovery of a new asteroid this month has turned out to be anything but. In fact, it isn't even a natural object. The wannabe asteroid, announced on Jan. 2 as 2018 CN41, is actually a Tesla ...

A view of Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, with a mannequin nicknamed "Starman" behind the wheel, is seen during the February 6, 2018, live stream of SpaceX's inaugural Falcon Heavy launch.

The Tesla Roadster had been blasted into the cosmos during a publicity stunt in February 2018, when Musk’s company, SpaceX, was testing its Falcon Heavy rocket. 3 Now this is an asteroid.

On Jan. 2, the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced the discovery of an unusual asteroid, designated 2018 CN41. First ...

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

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 ...

A view of Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, with a mannequin nicknamed "Starman" behind the wheel, is seen during the February 6, 2018, live stream of SpaceX's inaugural Falcon Heavy launch.

Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes difficult pursuit of tracking deep-space objects.

The discovery of a new asteroid this month has turned out to be anything but. In fact, it isn't even a natural object. The wannabe asteroid, announced on Jan. 2 as 2018 CN41, is actually a Tesla ...