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 Tesla case is not an isolated case," astronomer Jonathan McDowell of the ...

The red Tesla Roadster was mistaken for an undiscovered asteroid by astronomers.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A strange object initially thought to be a newly discovered asteroid ...

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 ...

Elon Musk’s orbiting Tesla Roadster was recently mistaken for a new asteroid. While it may crash into Earth in millions of years, it poses zero real threat.

It's not an asteroid. It's a Tesla Roadster launched in 2018 from the Falcon Heavy rocket with a dummy driver named "Starman." Less than a day after astronomers announced the discovery of a new ...

Elon Musk sent a Tesla and Starman into orbit on a Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in 2018. Track where ...

A story you may have seen recently claims an asteroid spotted this month by an astronomer turned out to be a Tesla in space. Believe it or not, this one's true. In 2018, Elon Musk and SpaceX launched ...

Harvard University-affiliated astronomers announced the discovery of a new asteroid zooming precariously close to Earth — only to learn it was actually a Tesla sports car launched by Elon Musk as a ...

In 2018, Elon Musk sent his cherry red Tesla Roadster into orbit aboard the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. Complete with a mannequin driver named Starman and an infotainment screen ...