It’s easy to craft a paper airplane capable of soaring across a classroom, but one that can travel 200 feet is a bit harder.

Almost everyone has folded a sheet of paper into an airplane, thrown it across a classroom or playground, and watched it ...

Check out a new book of paper airplanes inspired by the Smithsonian’s collections Michael D. Hulslander A paper airplane and its inspiration, the Mitchell U-2 Superwing. Plane image - Gift of Frank X.

A group of students from Italy's University of Pisa constructed a paper plane with a wingspan of 65.75 feet and flew it a distance of 193.5 feet.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At some point in everyone's life—usually during a particularly dull moment in third grade—a plain white piece of paper inspires a ...

A robot can design, build and test objects made from folded paper, such as planes or grippers, better than a human if given the same number of attempts. Robotic laboratories can test and design ...

Space junk is a huge problem. The surge in satellite launches in recent years is leaving low Earth orbit (LEO) cluttered with debris such as discarded rocket bodies, broken parts and defunct ...

From the top of a 165-foot dam, the team puts homemade paper airplanes to the test to see whose design can fly the furthest.