Indian rocket suffers catastrophic failure during launch, Earth-watching satellite lost | Amazing photos of the 2021 Perseid meteor shower | Cygnus cargo ship arrives at International Space Station with its biggest NASA haul ever
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India's first launch of 2021 has ended in failure. An Indian rocket carrying a new Earth-observation satellite for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) suffered a catastrophic failure shortly after launching early Thursday (Aug. 12).
The annual Perseid meteor shower, one of the best displays of "shooting stars" this year, put on a spectacular show for skywatchers around the world. See photos of the 2021 Perseid meteor shower in this Space.com gallery!
This year, record-breaking wildfires triggered by similarly historic heatwaves are ravaging swaths of land on three continents and Earth observation satellites have been tracking it all.
SpaceXplans to launch a Canadian advertisement-beaming satellite into space that will eventually accept payments in Dogecoin, according to a media report.
The peak of the 2021 Perseid meteor shower overnight on Wednesday and Thursday (Aug. 11-12) thrilled amateur astronomers as Earth passed through the debris tail of Comet Swift-Tuttle.
