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Four space station astronauts have returned to earth after a quick flight home aboard one of Elon Musk's SpaceX capsules.

The U.S.-Russian-Japanese crew returned to Earth late Saturday after spending five months at the International Space Station, arriving last October.

Four space station astronauts are back on Earth after a quick SpaceX flight home

ORLANDO, Fla. — Another four humans are back on Earth after spending more than five months in space with the SpaceX Crew-5 mission that departed the International Space Station in the wee hours of Saturday before a 19-hour trip home to splash down off the coast of Florida.

NASA and other space agencies around the world plan to establish an official time zone for the Moon -- but it won't have to deal with Daylight Savings Time.

Watch from the International Space Station as Nasa's SpaceX Crew-5 prepares to return to Earth

NASA is tracking an asteroid nearly 50 metres wide and known as 2023 DW that has a small chance of hitting Earth on Valentine's Day in 2046.

ORLANDO, Fla. — NASA Administrator Bill Nelson gave his annual State of NASA speech on Thursday dropping the news of when the agency would announce the four astronauts that will fly on the first crewed mission of the Artemis program while giving a top-level look at a record budget request…

Thousands of pieces of space debris, also known as space junk, are orbiting Earth, with tons more added each year. This orbital debris poses a significant threat to satellites, spacecraft, astronauts — and increasingly humans on Earth.

Less than two weeks after it was discovered, asteroid 2023 DW sits at the top of the "risk list" maintained by the European Space Agency.

International organisations have been working on planetary defence and ways to protect the planet from potential collisions.