Space debris—the thousands of pieces of human-made objects abandoned in Earth's orbit—pose a risk to humans when they fall to ...

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A way of accurately tracking potentially deadly space junk as it falls to Earth has been devised. Seismometers usually used to detect earthquake activity can pinpoint sounds of space debris entering ...