If you were asked to describe the design needs for a modern sailing cruising yacht to someone new to sailing, you might tell ...

Purdue University engineers have developed a space-debris-clearing drag sail called Spinnaker3 that is designed to speed up the deorbiting of space junk up to 400 miles (645 km) high so it safely ...

Chinese space scientists have said they successfully used a huge space sail to remove debris from Earth's orbit. Announced by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology on July 6, the huge sail ...

Every year, I see a proliferation of makeshift boats, sails aloft, plodding down big lakes and rivers. Canoe sailing is a great adventure and a wonderful way to make headway and combine a rest day in ...

Engineers are set to test a device that could pull defunct spacecraft and used rocket parts back to Earth, allowing them to burn up harmlessly in the atmosphere. Researchers at Purdue University in ...

DREDGE is back with a splash! Black Salt Games and Team17 Digital have just released 'The Iron Rig,' the second expansion for their award-winning indie fishing adventure. This new DLC, available from ...

You may not know what a junk boat is, but odds are high that you’ve seen one. The junk boat – tall and wooden with its three bright-red sails glowing in the Victoria Harbor sunlight – is one of the ...

This kite-like space sail will help deorbit a rocket component within two years. Image: Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology Engineers in China have successfully deployed an ultra-thin sail ...

ADEO being deployed from the ION Satellite Carrier during the December 2022 test. Gif: High Performance Space Structure Systems/Gizmodo There’s a lot of junk orbiting our planet, from tiny flecks of ...

The cruise industry and the segment of privately owned vessels, be they yachts or the gargantuan megayachts that never fail to make headlines, are two of the biggest contributors to climate change.

The drag sail was launched on a Long March 2nd rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in southwest China on June 23rd, 2022. The rocket was launched by China to deliver three remote sensing ...