According to SpaceX’s own calculation, the Roadster completed its first orbit around the Sun in August 2019 and made its ...

An object that was incorrectly identified by an amateur astronomer as an asteroid has turned out to be a Tesla Roadster.

Space law academic states recent misidentification of asteroid—it was a Tesla Roadster heading to Mars!—reminds Earth ...

Musk's DOGE is about to audit one of the agencies that has secured him billions in contracts over the last decade.

To be precise, it was Elon Musk ... fleet of spacecraft at the moon, in orbit around the sun, and at associated Lagrange points of gravitational stability. Because of the Tesla Roadster ...

Astronomers announced a new asteroid before learning it was actually a Tesla Elon Musk launched into space in 2018. The Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of the presumed asteroid on ...

Elon Musk has long railed against the U.S. government, saying a crushing number of federal probes and safety programs have ...

Elon Musk has long railed against the U.S. government, saying numerous investigations and safety programs have stymied Tesla, ...

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 sent the car (with a spacesuit-clad ...

Astronomers fall for Elon Musk’s space stunt mistaking his Tesla for an asteroid Recently, astronomers made a pretty embarrassing mistake when they thought they found a new asteroid. It turns ...

Why It Matters: The announcement comes amid a series of developments in Tesla’s FSD technology. Earlier this month, Musk predicted that Tesla’s FSD would surpass human driving safety by the ...

Credit: AstroForge The lack of such a system can lead to more misidentifications of human-built spacecraft by astronomers, and such confusion could have lasting impacts. Elon Musk's Tesla ...