Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artistic impression of the Electrostatic Tractor during an Earth encounter. (CREDIT: Fabio Annecchini & Dario Izzo) A dead ...

As space junk continues to multiply around our planet, threatening satellites and space missions, a new breakthrough proposes a non-contact solution that uses electrostatic forces to gently move ...

The nefarious tractor beam, otherwise known as the tool singlehandedly responsible for all alien abductions resulting in a special kind of probing, is soon to become a reality. An ensemble of ...

A dead satellite can become a high-speed hazard in an orbit that is already packed with working spacecraft. That risk is why engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder are building what sounds ...