The Philae lander from European Space Agency's Rosetta mission's landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Credit: ESA - ...

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

Astronomers have retracted the discovery of a new asteroid after realizing the object was the remains of Elon Musk's Tesla ...

Its value as the key that unlocked the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs is world-famous—but the turbulent history surrounding ...

Musk launched his personal Tesla Roadster into space on February 6, 2018, as a test payload for the Falcon Heavy rocket.

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

Rosetta spacecraft finds water on Earth didn’t come from comets Where did Earth's water come from? For years, scientists believed comets could have delivered it to Earth. But the Rosetta ...

The “asteroid” wasn’t a space rock after all. It was a cherry-red Tesla Roadster that Elon Musk launched into space to much ...

Earlier this month, the Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of an unusual asteroid close to Earth. Turns out, it was a car.

And in 2007, the MPC had to retire the asteroid designation 2007 VN84 when the object was discovered to be the Rosetta spacecraft — a high-profile European mission then performing a flyby of ...

NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) in deep space at the L2 Lagrange point was added to the MPC's Near-Earth Object Confirmation Page (NEOCP) several times, while the Rosetta ...

In her new book, social anthropologist Dr Ceridwen Dovey explores the imaginary tales of human-made objects adrift in outer space, using real events ...