What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through the cosmos.. Yep, you read that right. The infinite vastness of outer ...

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Astronomers mistook a Tesla Roadster that was launched into orbit in 2018 for an asteroid earlier this month. The registry of what was thought to be an asteroid was soon deleted.

The wannabe asteroid, announced on Jan. 2 as 2018 CN41, is actually a Tesla Roadster launched into space years ago by SpaceX ...

The Tesla roadster launched on the Falcon Heavy rocket in 2018 with a dummy driver named "Starman" (main) and stock image of an asteroid (inset).

A view of Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, with a mannequin nicknamed "Starman" behind the wheel, is seen during the February 6, 2018, live stream of SpaceX's inaugural Falcon Heavy launch.

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 mannequin ...

A view of Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, with a mannequin nicknamed "Starman" behind the wheel, is seen during the February 6, 2018, live stream of SpaceX's inaugural Falcon Heavy launch.

Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, seen here departing Earth with its Starman mannequin at the wheel, launched on a SpaceX rocket in 2018 and mistaken for a near-Earth asteroid in January 2025. | Credit ...