In other words, NASA and Arx Pax are going to try to create a magnetic tractor beam. A small one. “NASA realized that this is a fundamental tool,” Arx Pax founder and CFO Greg Henderson told ...

As millions of people across the U.S. recently looked up to the skies to witness widespread auroras dancing overhead, some farmers were left perplexed as their tractors seemingly started doing the ...

The tractor beam, a beloved staple of science fiction, has been inching closer and closer to reality. We’ve got physicists building optical beams that can pull micro-scale balls through water.

The first time NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has observed a big magnetic burst in the sun’s corona, this event could ...

NASA Is Working With a Hoverboard Company to Develop Magnetic "Tractor Beams" Updated 9.3.15, 5:26 PM EDT by Kif Leswing Arx Pax announced the partnership with NASA under the Space Act Agreement ...

The partnership involves Arx Pax’s Magnetic Field Architecture (MFA ... now The technology inevitably conjures up images of the tractor beam used on “Star Trek.” “Likely uses for this ...

Outside of Earth’s protective magnetic field, that plasma environment can become unpredictable. Vehicles soaring through can disturb the flow of plasma and generate a wake of ions behind them, almost ...

With the help of a start-up’s hoverboard technology, NASA is hoping to develop a tractor beam system that could manipulate a satellite’s movements using magnetic fields. While journalists are ...

NASA's proposed magnetic control systems won't be strong enough to drag spaceships around. Sorry, "Star Wars" fans. Video provided by Newsy ...

A set of electromagnets has been used to move metal objects without touching them, even though the objects are not magnetic. This method could potentially be used like a ‘tractor beam’ to move ...

Twice while on Autosteer, the tractor danced a row to the left, to the right… so I had to loop around and start over," Ramstad said. "By nightfall, there was no controlling the Autosteer." ...