The discovery of a new asteroid this month has turned out to be Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster launched by SpaceX in 2018.

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

Musk launched his personal Tesla Roadster into space on February 6, 2018, as a test payload for the Falcon Heavy rocket.

The Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., officially registered the new space rock Jan. 2, saying it was spotted hurling ...

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 ...

However, the Minor Planet Center (MPC), the agency responsible for cataloging asteroids, quickly retracted the classification ...

Astronomers mistook a Tesla Roadster that was launched into orbit in 2018 for an asteroid earlier this month. The registry of ...

Earlier this month, an amateur astronomer discovered what appeared to be the “asteroid”, designated 2018 CN41, that appeared to be passing very close to Earth. When it came within less than ...

Scientists with the Minor Planet Centre (MPC) designated extra terrestrial object 2018 CN41 on January 2 this year after it was spotted by a Turkish amateur astronomer. Before its designation it ...

On January 2, the Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of the unique asteroid 2018 CN41, but soon had to remove the ...

Less than 24 hours after the Minor Planet Center announced a new asteroid, it said the object was actually Musk's electric ...

The "asteroid" was designated 2018 CN41 on January 2 by the Minor Planet Center (MPC) at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after its discovery by an ...