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By:Christy Cooney A SpaceX capsule sent to bring back two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) has docked. The Dragon capsule, which has two empty seats for Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, docked at 17:30 eastern time (22:30 BST). The pair arrived at the station on Boeing’s new Starliner capsule for an eight-day mission in June, but were ...

Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams were stranded after problems emerged with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. NASA has said it will decide by the end of the month how it will bring home two astronauts who were stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) when their Starliner spacecraft malfunctioned. Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams took off for the ISS on ...

Watch: Why asteroid Bennu samples are so important… in 83 seconds By Jonathan Amos, science correspondent  in Dugway, Utah Dusty samples from the “most dangerous known rock in the Solar System” have been brought to Earth. The American space agency Nasa landed the materials in a capsule that came down in the West Desert of Utah state. The samples had ...