The object gained an official name, C/2025 N1 or 3I/ATLAS, on Wednesday. Moving at a record-setting speed for an interstellar ...

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It has been a little over seven years since SpaceX first test-launched its powerful Falcon Heavy rocket. The February 2018 launch also shot SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's personal Tesla Roadster, along ...

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 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.

The Minor Planet Center (MPC), responsible for the designation of minor bodies in the solar system such as asteroids and comets, seemingly mistook the roadster for a small body in space in January.

Very quickly, though, the Minor Planet Center very quickly went back on its estimates after revealing it was not an asteroid but the very Tesla Roadster that Musk blasted off into space seven ...

On Jan. 2, the Minor Planet Center (MPC) at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., an organization collecting data on small celestial bodies in the solar system ...

The finding of an asteroid by an amateur astronomer was noted at the start of the year by researchers at the Minor Planet Centre at the Centre for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian. But after a ...

Recently, astronomers made a pretty embarrassing mistake when they thought they found a new asteroid. It turns out it was Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster from 2018. You know, the one with Starman in ...