In 1999, astronaut John Crichton (Ben Browder) strapped into the experimental spacecraft Farscape-1 and blasted into orbit. His intended mission, to carry out a high-velocity slingshot maneuver around ...

The growing problem of space junk around Earth could be cleaned up in part using the same forces that give you a static shock when you touch a doorknob on a windy day. By shooting space debris with an ...

A team of engineers is working on a real life “tractor beam,” a staple device of spacefaring sci-fi that can push and pull objects at a distance without making contact. Tantalizingly, their early ...

We’ve got a huge space junk problem — and it’s only going to get worse as more and more companies and governments launch satellites, spacecraft, probes, and even tourists into space. While much of ...

Research in Hanspeter's Schaub's lab on real-life tractor beams is being highlighted in Live Science News. The technology, more officially called an electro-static tractor, is a project of Schaub's ...

This article has been updated to clarify who pioneered the laser thruster technology, and to add further information about polymer-based tractor beam motors. WITH Earth’s orbit cluttered with dead ...

KARACHI, June 16: The local tractor industry and its vendors anticipate that the duty free import of used and new tractors, announced in the 2006-07 budget, will help dumping of junk tractors of ...

KARACHI, June 16: The local tractor industry and its vendors anticipate that the duty free import of used and new tractors, announced in the 2006-07 budget, will help dumping of junk tractors of ...