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

In fact, it isn't even a natural object. 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 ...

Recently the Minor Planet Center (MPC) announced the discovery of a new asteroid – 2018 CN41. Its orbit was closer than that of the Moon making it a near-Earth object and subject to the ...

Seven years after SpaceX launched Elon Musk’s cherry red sports car into orbit around our sun, astronomers unwittingly began paying attention to its movements once again. Observers spotted and ...

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

Earlier this month, an amateur astronomer discovered what appeared to be an asteroid, designated 2018 CN41, that seemed to be passing alarmingly close to Earth. The object came within less than ...

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 ...

Time flies when you're floating aimlessly through the cold, inhospitable wasteland that is space. And it's already been seven ...

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 ...