Orbital Debris

Cara Santa Maria

WATCH: Zero-G Junkyard

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 03.23.2012

You may think it's a bad thing that huge chunks of metal periodically fall out of the sky, but have you ever thought about the ones that don't come crashing down to Earth? That's right. There's an ever-growing amount of space junk in constant orbit around our little planet.

WATCH: NASA Developing Real-Life Tractor Beam

The Huffington Post | Timothy Stenovec | Posted 01.01.2012

The term "tractor beam" may conjure images of a giant laser pulling Han Solo's Millenium Falcon into the Death Star in 1977's "A New Hope". But the...