The Death Star, the planet-sized killing machine created by the Galactic Empire in Star Wars, uses a giant tractor beam to pull in Han Solo’s Millennium Falcon spacecraft in the original 1977 film.

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In the new episode of the Disney Plus Star Wars show Andor, Luthen gets caught in an Imperial tractor beam. He destroys it with a moment of sci-fi brilliance in one of the show’s best moments so ...

The tractor beams are familiar to many thanks to the Star Wars, Star Trek series and countless pictures of a UFO kidnaping a cow. Yet scientists are trying to obtain such beams in reality, and ...

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SCIENCE fiction is turning into science fact as researchers reveal they've developed Star Trek-style tractor beams that could move humans.

A tractor beam is a device that can move an object from a distance and a classic trope of UFO conspiracies and science-fiction. Now, physicists have demoed one at work in the lab.

The result is something very akin to the tractor beam seen in science fiction media like Star Wars. Further, the scientists say they may have found a way to make it more portable.

Entertainment Movies Sci-Fi Movies Star Wars Movies Star Wars: Starfighter has Mia Goth in its tractor beam as the big movie villain News By Nick Staniforth published 7 June 2025 ...

As for Star Wars: Starfighter, Goth will be jumping to lightspeed pretty soon, with filming set to begin this year for a 2027 release date.