However, hours later the MPC announced it was removing the object from its records because it wasn't an asteroid at all. It was a car that was launched into space seven years ago. To be specific, it was Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster.

The Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., officially registered the new space rock Jan. 2, saying it was spotted hurling through the final frontier roughly 150,000 miles from Earth, according

Sources tell WIRED that the OPM’s top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Palantir. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin.

The wannabe asteroid, announced on Jan. 2 as 2018 CN41, is actually a Tesla Roadster launched into space years ago by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. The company sent the car (with a spacesuit-clad mannequin called "Starman" in the driver's seat) into a long orbit around the sun in 2018 as the first payload of the company's Falcon Heavy rocket.

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Award-winning actor Jon Hamm, best known for his roles in “Mad Men” and more recently “Fargo” and “Landman,” will be honored as the 2025 Man of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatrica

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There is no direct evidence to support the claim that Elon Musk's maternal grandparents, Joshua N. Haldeman and Winnifred "Wyn" Josephine (Fletcher) Haldeman, were "Nazi party members in Canada," nor that they moved to South Africa "because they supported apartheid."

Philip Low, founder of NeuroVigil, a company the Tesla and SpaceX owner had invested in, pulls no punches as he rips into the man looming large over the world

Astronomers have retracted the discovery of a new asteroid after realizing the object was the remains of Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster and its driver "Starman," which were launched into space in 2018.

At a meeting of the workers' party of Korea this week, the North Korean leader criticised dozens of officials in a rare public rebuke for misconduct related to a 'drinking spree'. Watch this video to find out more.