ANU astronomers want to fire lasers at space junk

By Henry Belot
Updated April 23 2018 - 9:33pm, first published March 7 2014 - 3:57pm

Astronomers at the Australian National University want to fire lasers at space junk orbiting Earth in an effort to avoid scenes depicted in the Oscar-winning movie Gravity.

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