but it apparently exceeded the orbit of Mars and kept going to the asteroid belt, according to Musk at the time. When the roadster was mistaken for an asteroid earlier this month, it was less than ...

A new study of 2024 PT5 suggests it's no coincidence this asteroid is hanging around in our celestial neighborhood. This object appears to be a piece of the Moon, which was broken off in a ...

What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through the cosmos. Yep, you read that right. The infinite vastness of outer ...

Officials today hope to inspire a new generation of art lovers. By Zachary Small “There’s always a few athletes that cross over into almost superhero world,” said an artist whose mural ...

Originating from the Arjuna asteroid belt, a collection of space rocks that share similar orbits with Earth, 2024 PT5 did not complete a full revolution around our planet. Instead, its path was ...

Speaking to Astronomy magazine, McDowell outlined a concerning scenario: "Worst case, you spend a billion launching a space probe to study an asteroid and only realise its not an asteroid when you get ...