On 6 February 2018, a Tesla Roadster was launched as the mass simulator on the first ever Falcon Heavy launch — putting for the first time ever a car on a Mars-crossing orbit. While undoubted… ...

“Starman, last seen leaving Earth, made its first close approach with Mars today - within 0.05 astronomical units, or under 5 million miles, of the Red Planet,” SpaceX says in a recent tweet.

Starman will also make a second, slightly more distant pass in 2050. Simulated view of Starman on January 11, 2047. Credit: Ben Pearson/ Where is Roadster 3D simulator ...

The Virtual Telescope Project bid farewell to Starman with a live-stream broadcast as he floated off into the cosmos. The car was just over a million miles away from Earth and appeared only as a ...

Starman, the passenger of the Tesla Roadster that SpaceX sent to outer space last year, has completed his first orbit around the sun. The people on Earth may be able to catch a glimpse of the ...

Elon Musk will be 76 when Starman comes home Credit: Reuters It was a test launch of his new rocket ship, the Falcon Heavy - which the Twitter owner dreams will one day take humans to Mars.

If Starman and the Roadster are successfully able to make their journey to Mars and back again — and again, and again, and again — they will serve as an enduring symbol of human innovation.

Starman is a mannequin sporting a SpaceX flight suit, casually seated behind the wheel of a red Tesla Roadster. On Wednesday, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk shared the last image of Starman, as he ...

Jeff Bridges has two movies in theaters this weekend, including the brand-new “Bad Times at the El Royale.” But “Starman,” the 1984 John Carpenter film he starred in with Karen Allen, also ...

Dave Starman, one of the best-known names in college hockey broadcasting, took the stage not as emcee, but as the keynote for the Minnesota Hockey Coaches Association’s annual preseason convention.