Because a real-life tractor beam is currently under development at the University of Colorado Boulder, with the goal of eventually helping to clean up space junk.

The researchers, for example, are employing a new facility to replicate the surprisingly complex environment around Earth. They’re also setting their sights on how tractor beams might someday remove ...

For kids in the late 1970s and early 1980s, no trip to the mall was complete without hitting Space Port, the ubiquitous video arcade that dotted the fruited plain in those days. Space Port, like ...

Aug 27, 2024 08:00:00 A sci-fi technology that uses a tractor beam to attract and collect space debris could become a reality. In science fiction works, we often see depictions of shooting down ...

Ali Hajimiri has spent a decade researching how to put solar panels in space and beam the energy down to Earth. Yet when the Caltech electrical engineering professor talks about his work, people ...

Solar farms in space could harness the power of the sun, unaffected by bad weather, cloud cover, nighttime or the seasons. ... The beam won’t be powerful enough to be weaponized, he added.