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

The Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of the presumed asteroid on January 2 - even giving it an official name of ...

Astronomers mistook a Tesla Roadster that was launched into orbit in 2018 for an asteroid earlier this month. The registry of ...

The Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., officially registered the new space rock Jan. 2, saying it was spotted hurling ...

The case of mistaken identity was quickly resolved, but astronomers say it shows the need for transparency around craft in ...

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If the International Asteroid Warning Group discovers a deadly projectile speeding Earthward, the U.N. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space — yes, that's a real agency, formed in 1959 ...

Some space conspiracy theories just won't go away.

State Sen. Jerry Stevenson, R-Layton, is sponsoring a bill that would establish a Spaceport Exploration Committee. That ...

Asteroid impacts on Earth are a natural phenomenon ... We have had a treaty since 1967 not to use nuclear devices in outer space and we’d like to keep it that way.” Prof Fitzsimmons said ...

A small asteroid named 2024 PT5, once hailed as Earth's temporary second moon, might have originated from our very own Moon.