According to SpaceX’s own calculation, the Roadster completed its first orbit around the Sun in August 2019 and made its ...

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

On January 2 this year, the Minor Planet Center, part of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, believed they had discovered a new asteroid. They named it 2018 CN41, found it 149,000 ...

X-ray bursts from the poles are expected to line up, but the south is regular while the north produces haphazard bursts Jason Daley The chirp and flash from the event offers clues to the origin of ...

G said Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, "quickly figured out" the object was the Falcon upper stage. "Being slightly embarrassed that I might ...

The Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) is one of the largest and most diverse astrophysical institutions in the world, where scientists carry out a broad program of research in ...

Harvard-affiliated astronomers mistook Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster for an asteroid near Earth. Initially flagged as "2018 CN41 ...

Earlier this month, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics identified what appeared to be a previously undiscovered asteroid orbiting precariously near the Earth. The next day, the center ...

In other Musk-related news, a fireball caused by a falling Starlink internet satellite streaked across the U.S. night sky this week You can save this article by registering for free here.

On Jan. 2, the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts — which tracks such finds — announced the discovery. A day later, once the Tesla truth ...

On Jan. 2, the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts — which tracks such finds — announced the discovery. A day later, once the ...