If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Scientists may have discovered how to create a real-life tractor beam using ...

While our science fiction tractor beams utilize undescribed technologies to create a physical (often visible) beam tethering two objects in space, our real-world tractor beams won’t be quite so ...

The quest for a real life tractor beam continues, with a 2-micrometer-thick silicon light bender. The silicon metasurface changes a solid beam into a triple spiral one that can pick up particles.

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. Space debris is a serious issue ...

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 ...

Tractor beams have been common in science fiction for decades. Now a team of researchers is working on a real-life tractor beam that could help us with our burgeoning space debris problem. Space ...