To get started, all you need is a standard A4 sheet of paper and the folding skills of a 4-year-old. Reading time 3 minutes Building a spacecraft could one day be as simple as folding a piece of paper ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The ancient art of origami has inspired designs for numerous pieces of hardware on NASA missions, ...

While there are many types of paper stars you can make (from origami stars to folded lucky stars), Waldorf stars are unique ...

BYU's origami-inspired antenna self-deploys for space applications. Produced by BYU Video. It's hard to imagine modern life without cell phones, GPS navigation, wide-spread internet, weather ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Future spacecraft and rockets may have softer landings thanks to technology inspired by origami, ...

The code has been copied to your clipboard. Robert Salazar has been playing with origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, since he was 8 years old. When he sees a sheet of paper, his imagination ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Japanese scientists and origami masters hope to launch a paper airplane from space and learn from its trip back to Earth. It's no joke.

One big problem when sending things into space is, well, space. Rockets have limited payload capacity and given the costs involved, every inch counts. That's why Brigham Young University researchers ...

BYU engineers have teamed up with a world-renowned origami expert to solve one of space exploration’s greatest (and most ironic) problems: lack of space. Working with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ...

Brigham Young University student Kelvin (Zhongyuan) Wang’s love of paper folding just led to a discovery that added a new chapter to an art form that can trace its roots back hundreds of years. And it ...