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One of these missions may give a glimpse into what the universe was like before our solar system

What are the three missions making up Nasa's asteroid autumn?

The Moon will appear in the sky in between Saturn and Jupiter (Photo: Getty Images)

How to spot the final supermoon of the year: the Harvest Moon

The capsule was handled in a glovebox with constant nitrogen flow by technicians in protective gear to ensure the sample remains pristine. Image: NASA via AP

What happens now scientists have gathered an asteroid sample?

Scientists spot number of galaxies like our own in early universe using the Webb Space Telescope (Image: Adobe)

Scientists spots galaxies like our own in early universe

Images from NASA/Solar Dynamics Observatory depict a large solar flare erupting off the sun in June, 2011 (Pic: Getty Images)

Nasa's spacecraft survives flying through a solar flare

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson attends a press conference at NASA headquarters September 14, 2023 in Washington, DC. NASA announced the agency has appointed a new director of research to study “unidentified anomalous phenomenon”, formerly referred to as UFOs. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Nasa names its new head of UFO research despite secrecy vow

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 14: NASA Administrator Bill Nelson attends a press conference at NASA headquarters September 14, 2023 in Washington, DC. NASA announced the agency has appointed a new director of research to study âunidentified anomalous phenomenonâ, formerly referred to as UFOs. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

No evidence of extraterrestrial origin but aliens 'may exist'

Michael Peña as José Hernández in A Million Miles Away

A Million Miles Away movie: Amazon Prime release date of space biopic

The mummified 'aliens' are claimed to have been found in Peru, and be over 1,000 years old (Photos: Screengrab)

Game changer or hoax? Mummified 'aliens' unveiled in Mexican Congress

An artist's concept shows what exoplanet K2-18 b could look like based on science data. (Image: NASA, CSA, ESA, J. Olmsted (STScI))

Nasa finds massive exoplanet with water-covered surfaces

In this concept illustration provided by NASA, NASA's Perseverance (Mars 2020) rover will store rock and soil samples in sealed tubes on the planet's surface for future missions to retrieve in the area known as Jezero crater on the planet Mars. (Photo illustration by NASA via Getty Images)

NASA manages to produce oxygen on Mars through Perseverance rover

The X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) and the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) onboard the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 47 (H-IIA F47) (Image: Jaxa)

Everything you need to know about Japan's space agency, Jaxa

A Japanese H-IIA rocket carrying the Slim ‘Moon Sniper’ lander launches from Tanegashima space centre (Image: Jaxa/Mitsubishi Heavy Industries)

Japan successfully launches two missions into space

Satellite view of Earth taken on September 6 shows Saharan dust blowing over the UK.

Windows and cars left ‘dusty’ as Sahara sand blows across UK

During the descent to the surface, the Russian spacecraft Luna 25 experienced an anomaly that caused it to impact into the southwest rim of Pontécoulant G crater on Aug. 19, 2023, at 7:58 a.m. EDT (11:58 a.m. UTC) (Image: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State University)

The crash site of Russia's Luna-25 probe has now been discovered

'Unidentified aerial phenomena' filmed by US Navy pilots (Image: US Dept of Defence)

The Pentagon has launched a site for declassified information on UFOs

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny: when is sequel on Disney+

Neptune (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Mysterious dark spot detected on Neptune from Earth for first time

X-59 (Image: Nasa)

Nasa announces plan for supersonic passenger jets

The X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) and the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) onboard the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 47 (H-IIA F47) (Image: Jaxa)

Japan suspends launch of its Moon lander due to strong winds

Who are SpaceX Crew-7, after a successful launch of Falcon rocket?

Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument reveals the star, nicknamed Earendel, to be a massive B-type star more than twice as hot as our Sun, and about a million times more luminous.(Credits: Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, D. Coe (STScI/AURA for ESA; Johns Hopkins University), B. Welch (NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center; University of Maryland, College Park). Image processing: Z. Levay.)

The Webb Telescope reveals the most distant star in known universe

The idea is to live 30 miles above the planet's surface (Photo: SDO/NASA via Getty Images)

The hunt for 1,000 people to live 30 miles above Earth

Undated handout photo issued by the European Southern Observatory of an artist's illustration showing the ejection of a cloud of debris after NASA's DART spacecraft collided with the asteroid Dimorphos (Image PA)

Nasa asteroid strike unleashes boulder storm 'as deadly as Hiroshima'

A Nasa image of one of the Voyager space probes. Voyager 1 and its identical sister craft Voyager 2 were launched in 1977 to study the outer Solar System and eventually interstellar space. (Photo by NASA/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Voyager 2: Nasa receivers 'heartbeat' signal from missing probe

Nasa is launching its own streaming site (Image: Photo by TIM SLOAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Nasa is launching its own streaming site later this year

The project was founded by physicist Samuel Peralta (Photo by SAEED KHAN/AFP via Getty Images)

A digitised collection of creative work will be sent to the moon

In this concept illustration provided by NASA, NASA's Perseverance (Mars 2020) rover will store rock and soil samples in sealed tubes on the planet's surface for future missions to retrieve in the area known as Jezero crater on the planet Mars. (Photo illustration by NASA via Getty Images)

NASA researchers to test Rum rocks ahead of Mars space mission

A closer view of outcrop A showing the upper row of 'spike-like' protrusions following a horizon of the bedding and lower down at least two further laminae affected by 'wedge-like' protrusions (NASA/JPL -Caltech)

Scientists say marks on Mars could be from an alien spacecraft

Large asteroid flies close to Earth - only spotted a few days later

By analysing new observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a team led by Simon Lilly of ETH Zürich in Switzerland found evidence that galaxies that existed 900 million years after the big bang ionized the gas around them, causing it to become transparent. (Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, Simon Lilly (ETH Zürich), Daichi Kashino (Nagoya University), Jorryt Matthee (ETH Zürich), Christina Eilers (MIT), Rob Simcoe (MIT), Rongmon Bordoloi (NCSU), Ruari Mackenzie (ETH Zürich); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI) Ruari Macken)

NASA's James Webb snaps power image of the early universe

An artists illustration of a Hot Jupiter (Image: BBC Sky at Night)

A giant helium tail is leaking from a Hot Jupiter

This marked SpaceX’s 28th cargo mission to the ISS

Explainer SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule successfully docks with ISS

NASA's worldview satellite shows the plume of smoke (centre) from the fire at Cannich drifting towards Loch Ness on Monday amid clear skies (Photo: PA Wire)

Scottish government to tackle wildfire awareness after 6000ha blaze

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UK reports 497 UFO sightings as Nasa holds meeting on anomalies

A NASA panel of experts are holding their first public meeting in which they will make their "final deliberations" on a study of UFOs. (Credit: AFP via Getty Images)

NASA experts hold first public meeting on UFO study

A bright glow was spotted in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv at 10pm local time. (YouTube)

NASA denies claims of a satellite crash in Kyiv

Ariane 5 rocket lifts off for it's 100th mission to space from Kourou, French Guiana, on September 25, 2018. - It's payload is two satellites: Horizons 3e, a high-throughput communications satellite build by Boeing, and Azerspace-2 / Intelsat 38. (Photo by JODY AMIET/AFP via Getty Images)

SpaceX launches commercial Intelsat 40e satellite

Koch, Glover (rear), Hansen and Wiseman (seated) were unveiled at the Johnson Space Center (Photo: Nasa)

Nasa reveals Artemis II crew ahead of Moon mission launch

Julius Caesar lands his craft during his invasion on Britain (Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

‘Beware the Ides of March’ this week - but what does that mean?

The 2023 DW asteroid has been tracked by Nasa scientists. (Credit: NasaAsteroidWatch/Twitter)

Asteroid ‘size of Olympic swimming pool’ could hit Earth in 2046

Huge asteroid set to crash into Earth’s atmosphere this week

This is how to track Santa on his Christmas Eve journey - and when you can see him in the UK.

Where is Santa right now? How to track his Christmas Eve journey

Spectators watch as the Artemis I unmanned lunar rocket lifts off from launch pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida (Photo: JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

NASA finally launches Artemis I moon mission after weeks of delay

The Hubble telescope sits in low-earth orbit (image: Getty Images)

NASA’s Hubble Telescope takes ‘amazing’ picture of supernova

A pinhole camera is a safe and easy way to view an eclipse (Photo: SAM PANTHAKY/AFP via Getty Images)

How to make your own pinhole camera to view the solar eclipse

NASA successfully smashes spacecraft into asteroid in test mission

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Jupiter will be at opposition and ‘close’ to the Earth - how to see it

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop a mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B as preparations for launch continue at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on August 28, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Photo by Joel Kowsky/NASA via Getty Images)

Nasa calls off Artemis launch - when it could go ahead

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft is seen atop the mobile launcher (Getty Images)

Nasa Artemis launch called off due to engine bleed issue

The Hubble Space Telescope, which turned 30 in 2020 (Photo: NASA via Getty Images)

How to see the photo the Hubble Space Telescope took on your birthday

NASA has released an audio file which shows the sound of a black hole. (Credit: @NASAExoplanets/Twitter)

NASA releases audio file showing what a black hole sounds like

The James Webb Space Telescope has shown Jupiter in all its glory (image: NASA)

What do the NASA James Webb Telescope Jupiter pictures show?

A meteor streaks across the sky during the Perseid meteor shower (Pic: NASA via Getty Images)

What time is the Perseid meteor shower tonight in UK?

Buzz Aldrin pictured in his famous space jacket (image: AFP/Getty Images)

How much did Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s moon jacket sell for?

Russia will withdraw from the International Space Station after 2024