The Quadrantids are the first meteor shower of 2024. Here's where to look and the best time to see it.

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Dozens of shooting stars fall to Earth against a dark, starry night sky.
The Quadrantids can produce over 100 meteors an hour.

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India launches a satellite to study black holes as it preps to become the fourth country to send humans into space

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People watch a Indian Space Research Organisation launch.
People watch an Indian Space Research Organization launch in September 2023.

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NASA is on a mission to 'touch the Sun' in milestone moment for space exploration

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  • NASA's Parker Solar Probe is set to pass the Sun on 24 December 2024.
  • It's due to fly past the sun at 195 km/s, or 435,000 mph.
  • "We are basically almost landing on a star," a scientist on the project said.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is set to pass the Sun next year in a milestone moment for space exploration.

An astronomer explains why the universe looks black even though it contains 200 billion trillion stars

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James Webb Space Telescope's view of Pandora's Cluster.

NASA, ESA, CSA, Ivo Labbe (Swinburne), Rachel Bezanson (University of Pittsburgh)

From Elon Musk's giant Starship rocket to India's spectacular moon landing, 2023 was an epic year in space

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SpaceX's Starship-Super Heavy rocket ready to launch.
Screenshot of SpaceX's Starship-Super Heavy rocket on launch pad. This photo was taken from the SpaceX livestream on X.

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SpaceX launched a top-secret military spaceplane into orbit

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The X37-B spaceplane sits aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.

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Mysterious 'ghostly' shadows larger than planet Earth reappeared on Saturn's rings. NASA says it expects even more to appear soon.

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Image of Saturn taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
You can see Saturn's spokes as dark bruises on the left side of the planet's rings.

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A SpaceX rocket booster was ruined after toppling over in rough waters

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This 2016 photo shows a SpaceX Falcon 9 on the I Still Love You sea launchpad just off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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Japan is close to becoming the 3rd nation to land on the moon in the 21st century. The US isn't one of them.

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An illustration of JAXA's SLIM spacecraft on the moon.

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A bizarre galaxy NASA spotted at the edge of the universe could upend what we know about supermassive black holes

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A picture from JWST shows the location of a distant galaxy called UHT-1 and its black hole.
A picture taken by JWST and Chandra X-ray observatory shows the location of a UHZ-1 and its black hole near the beginning of the universe.

NASA/CXC/SAO/Ákos Bogdán; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare & K. Arcand

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