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.

Tesla and SpaceX are teaming up to build something unlike anything the world has seen before—a next-generation Roadster that defies physics! Elon Musk hints that its mind-blowing acceleration is just the beginning.

The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could potentially be mistaken for natural celestial bodies

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

A U.K. group called Everyone Hates Elon is branding hundreds of Tesla vehicles in London with stickers saying "don't buy swasticars," according to a Novara Media Instagram post. Newsweek has reached out to a Tesla via email, and to Everyone Hates Elon via social media for comment.

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

Astronomers mistook a Tesla Roadster that was launched into orbit in 2018 for an asteroid earlier this month. The registry of what was thought to be an asteroid was soon deleted.

In an online forum for shareholders ahead of Tesla's fourth-quarter earnings, investors clamored for details about Elon Musk's robotaxi rollout.

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

Musk has former employees installed at the government’s HR shop, and several have appeared at its acquisition, tech and real estate agency as well.