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The Geminids meteor shower set to light up Australian skies ahead of Christmas will be the last natural light show of the year. It will be visible for several hours from midnight on Tuesday and again on Wednesday. Here’s everything you need to know. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: NASA’s Orion space capsule has reached the moon Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> The Geminids meteor shower radiates from the Gemini constellation and is made from fallen debris from the 3200 Phaethon - an asteroid first discovered in 1983. The Earth passes through the Geminids annually, and as the debris hits the earth’s atmosphere it begins to burn up causing a bright and colourful light show. ANU Astrophysicist Brad Tucker told 7NEWS.com.au that when you view the shower “you’re literally seeing these little bits of rock burning up in our skies as we go through the trail of debris”. “You’re always going to see good amounts of (Geminids), weather dependent - and you can count ...

The origin of a huge piece of space junk that washed up on a WA beach earlier this month is a mystery no more, with authorities confirming it came from an Indian rocket. State and federal agencies spent a little over two weeks working to find exactly where the large metallic cylinder discovered near Green Head, 50km north of Perth on the state’s Mid West coast, came from. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Authorities investigate mystery object in WA. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> On Monday the Australian Space Agency (ASA) confirmed what many space enthusiasts had theorised, concluding it was “most likely debris from an expended third-stage of a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle”. “The PSLV is a medium-lift launch vehicle operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation,” the agency said. The ASA previously flagged the device could be part of a space vehicle, while authorities were quick to say they were working on the premise the barnacle-encrusted ...

TOKYO: Japanese startup ispace inc is preparing to land its Hakuto-R Mission 1 (M1) spacecraft on the moon early on Wednesday, in what would be the world's first lunar landing by a private company if it succeeds. The M1 lander is set to touch down around 1:40 a.m. Japan time (1640 GMT Tuesday) after taking off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a SpaceX rocket in December. Success would mark a welcome reversal from the recent setbacks Japan has faced in space technology, where it has big ambitions of building a domestic industry, including a goal of sending Japanese astronauts to the moon by the late 2020s. In one of the biggest blows, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) last month lost its new medium-lift H3 rocket to forced manual destruction after it reached space. That was less than five months since JAXA's solid-fuel Epsilon rocket failed after launch in October. The 2.3-metre-tall (7.55 ft) M1 will begin an hour-long landing p...