The reason was simple, if at first nonsensical: The object not only was definitely not an asteroid, but wasn't any sort of space object at all. Rather, it was a cherry-red Tesla Roadster.

And it's already been seven years since SpaceX test-launched its powerful Falcon Heavy rocket, shooting founder Elon Musk's personal Tesla Roadster into space. The cherry-red sports car is still ...

In 2018, Elon Musk and SpaceX made headlines when they launched a Tesla Roadster into space as the payload for the maiden flight of the Falcon Heavy rocket on February 6, 2018, from Kennedy Space ...

The Feb. 6, 2018 launch shot SpaceX founder Elon Musk's personal Tesla Roadster into space. The sports car is still out there and even suffered from a case of mistaken identity recently when ...

SpaceX launched the Tesla Roadster on the maiden flight of ... "Worst case, you spend a billion launching a space probe to study an asteroid and only realize it’s not an asteroid when you ...

Deep space is “largely unregulated,” McDowell ... SpaceX had not responded to a query from Astronomy. The Tesla Roadster mix-up came as something of a disappointment to the Turkish amateur ...

A photo of “Starman” and Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster shared by SpaceX in 2018. SpaceX via Getty Images On this day seven years ago, SpaceX launched the maiden flight of Falcon Heavy, a rocket ...

The Minor Planet Center (MPC) seemingly mistook billionaire Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc. TSLA Roadster for a small body in space earlier this month, much to the fascination of the billionaire.

Tesla says the Roadster will accelerate to 60 mph in 1.9 seconds and to ... will be offered with a “SpaceX package” which taps into technology used by the space rocket company he also runs. This would ...