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.

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 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.

Explore how education shaped the world's wealthiest individuals. From Jeff Bezos' engineering degree to Elon Musk's short-lived PhD pursuit, and Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard dropout story, their academic paths reveal diverse routes to massive success.

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.

The USS Fitzgerald is the first U.S. Navy ship to implement an AI system that manages all onboard subsystems. This technology allows the crew to concentrate on battle preparation instead of maintenance tasks.

With Trump on his side, the tech-billionaire appears to be gearing up to remake the world according to his own whims.

The new administration has empowered a handful of extremely rich people to exert disproportionate influence over the government. There’s a word for that.

Elon Musk has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Norwegian libertarian MP Marius Nilsen, who tossed the Tesla founder’s name into the mix for consideration, cited Musk’s “adamant defense of dialogue, free speech and [enabling] the possibility to express one’s views’ in a continuously more polarized world.”

Elon Musk has promised Tesla vehicles had the hardware needed to support a self-driving car. This week, he made his latest

Elon Musk finally admits that Tesla will have to replace its HW3 self-driving computers. He said it would be difficult, but Tesla would do it. However, no concrete plan has been shared. For the better part of the year, we have been reporting that Tesla can’t achieve its promise of “full self-driving” on HW3, and it needs to come clean about it.

While that office may be ready to go to work, the FAA itself is not fully on the job. That’s because it’s without an administrator. Michael Whitaker, who had led the administration since Oct., 2023, stepped down earlier this month,