KASHIWA, Japan – 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. A prototype passed a durability test in a wind ...

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

Takuo Toda, head of the Japan Origami Airplane Association (classy!) set a new world record with his 27.9 second flight. His greatest ambition, however, is to launch a paper plane…from space. Toda’s ...

An astronaut will throw an origami paper plane from space to see what happens to it on its way back to Earth. Aeronautical engineers from Tokyo University will track its every move as it travels, at ...

Your average, everyday paper airplane got a new twist — or rather, fold — at Peabody Essex Museum last weekend, where families from around the state explored the innovation and artistry of paper ...

We knew that the Japanese wouldn't bother with boring old sensible experiments on the International Space Station. But commissioning a paper plane and launching it from space? Damn! The 3.1 inch plane ...

Japanese paper airplane virtuoso Takuo Toda set a world record for a hand-launched plane made with only paper Tokyo: In the world of competitive paper airplane throwing, a 20-second flight is ...

Now on Kickstarter, a simple kit turns any paper airplane into something that can be remotely flown using your smartphone. If it seems like kids have been flinging paper airplanes at each other since ...

It’s a bird… It’s a plane… It’s a paper airplane! The world record for the farthest flight by paper airplane has been broken by three aerospace engineers with a paper aircraft that flew a grand total ...