Thomas Edison, the autodidactic telegraph operator turned entrepreneur, is often considered the greatest inventor of all time ...

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An amateur astronomer submitted evidence of a new near-Earth asteroid that turned out to be the Tesla Roadster that SpaceX launched into space in 2018. . | Credit: SpaceX via Getty Images ...

An object in space that astronomers initially identified as an alarmingly close asteroid headed towards Earth turns out to be a Tesla car that ... an amateur astronomer discovered what appeared ...

Astronomers have retracted the discovery of a new asteroid after realizing the object was the remains of Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster and its driver "Starman," which were launched into space in 2018.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Astronomers have been left red-faced after announcing the discovery of a new near-Earth ...

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 ...

Earlier this month, an amateur astronomer discovered what appeared to be the ... instead that the object in question is a cherry-red Tesla Roadster that Elon Musk launched into space during ...

On January 2, 2025, the Minor Planet Center (MPC) of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced that it had discovered a new asteroid, naming it '2018 ...

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