As space junk continues to multiply around our planet, threatening satellites and space missions, a new breakthrough proposes ...

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 ...

Scientists are working on bringing a tractor beam from science fiction to reality. The researchers are planning to use beams of electrons to create opposite charges and attract object to the beam for ...

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 ...

A dead satellite can become a high-speed hazard in an orbit that is already packed with working spacecraft. That risk is why ...

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. In science fiction films, nothing ...

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 ...

ABERDEEN, South Dakota — The Meyers family of Aberdeen has grown to be one of the upper Midwest’s major recyclers of agricultural tractor and combines, and other equipment. Their parts business is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...