Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world's telescopes ...

What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly-discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through the cosmos.

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

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

2024 PT5 is the second near-Earth asteroid scientists suspect was ejected from the moon's surface, the first being 469219 ...

Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes ...

“We don’t want to receive (data about) any artificial objects at all,” Veres ... in late February to fly by an asteroid and snap images to investigate its surface. The mission marks one ...

The center said on its website that 2018 CN41’s registry was deleted after "it was pointed out the orbit matches an artificial object ... and kept going to the asteroid belt, according to ...

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