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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers are developing a real-life tractor beam, with the goal of pulling defunct satellites out of geostationary orbit to alleviate the space junk problem. When you purchase through links on our ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. With Earth's orbit cluttered with dead satellites, discarded rocket boosters and other space junk, ways to prevent the accumulation of such debris are ...

The kerfuffle escalated when CAH filed a $15 million lawsuit seeking restitution for the encroachment and subsequent damage ...

WILLMAR – Spare parts for farm equipment line the walls and shelves at Schwanke Tractor and Truck Inc. in Willmar. There are solid sounds of tools being used to loosen or tighten components of a ...

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 ...

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 ...