“If we’re confused about whether something is an unknown asteroid or a Tesla Roadster, then it starts to cost us money to do things like tracking it or figuring it out.” That’s why better ...

An object in space that astronomers initially identified as a close-to-Earth asteroid turned out to be a Tesla electric car that Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched in 2018 as a stupid publicity stunt.

It has been a little over seven years since SpaceX first test-launched its powerful Falcon Heavy rocket. The February 2018 ...

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years, NASA says — with the space agency saying it "no longer poses a significant ...

An asteroid gaining notoriety for its potential to collide with Earth in 2032 was estimated Tuesday to have roughly a 3% chance of striking our planet — the highest probability ever assigned ...