CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Authorities were investigating on Tuesday whether a cylindrical object about the size of a small car that washed up on a remote Australian beach is space junk from a foreign ...

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Space junk – or orbital debris, as it is more technically known – is the remnants of human-made objects that have been sent into space but are no longer useable. Whether the objects (sometimes ...