Space law academic states recent misidentification of asteroid—it was a Tesla Roadster heading to Mars!—reminds Earth dwellers that Elon Musk's pranks have consequences.

A story you may have seen recently claims an asteroid spotted this month by an astronomer turned out to be a Tesla in space.

On January 2, astronomers identified an object as asteroid 2018 CN41, but later confirmed to be Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster, ...

However, hours later the MPC announced it was removing the object from its records because it wasn't an asteroid at all. It ...

An object that was incorrectly identified by an amateur astronomer as an asteroid has turned out to be a Tesla Roadster. Earlier this month, on Jan. 2, a new asteroid called 2018 CN41 was announced by ...

The Tesla Roadster, launched by SpaceX in 2018, was mistakenly identified as a near-Earth asteroid, raising concerns over ...

YR4, which was recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years, may have caused ...

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

Astronomers announced the discovery of a new near-Earth asteroid, which turned out to be Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster launched ...

Catch Tallahassee Astronomical Society’s free planetarium show “February Skies over Tallahassee,” at the Fogg Planetarium on ...