How did it ascend to that point? The asteroid that was headed towards Earth was actually a Tesla. An amateur astronomer ...

NASA has identified an asteroid that has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032. The asteroid named '2024 YR4' has been ...

The Minor Planet Center collects observational data from professional and amateur astronomers, recording the discoverer and name of each object. This data is particularly important for tracking ...

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

The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could ...

An object in space that astronomers initially identified as an alarmingly close asteroid headed towards Earth turns out to be ...

A brand new mysterious 'asteroid' is causing confusion after it was spotted and submitted by an amateur astronomer, before ...

An asteroid the size of a skyscraper, 2024 YR4, has caught NASA’s attention due to a slight chance — just over 1% — of ...

The Minor Planet Center seemingly mistook Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster for a small body in space earlier this month, much to ...

A large asteroid could be heading toward Earth within the next decade, and there's a small chance it could strike the planet, according to NASA.

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

This package ships the Minor Planet Center's file of observatory codes and their geodetic coordinates. This is not an official MPC package. It is an automatically generated mirror of the file so that ...