Seven years after the SpaceX CEO launched a Tesla Roadster into orbit ... for Astrophysics in Massachusetts confused it with an asteroid earlier this month. A day after the astronomers with ...

Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster fooled astronomers as an asteroid, revealing critical flaws in space object tracking and sparking ...

The asteroid 99942 Apophis is headed for a close flyby with Earth on April 13, 2029, and space agencies are coordinating efforts to study the object during this the once-in-a-lifetime experience.