More talented origami enthusiasts also use their skills to create original works based on popular characters like Darth Vader from Star Wars ... for keeping small items like paper clips organized.

Written by Kathleen Massara Photographs by Ryan Jenq Paper ... distant stars by using paper-folding techniques. “If you want to send something in a rocket, it has to be packed small,” Ms ...

Of course, it would help if she had instructions and pre-printed paper like those in Star Wars Origami: 36 Amazing Paper-folding Projects from a Galaxy Far, Far Away. The back pages of the book ...

This pattern allows Starshade to be packed down into a space small enough to ... in orbit around those stars. You may like SpaceX Crew-10 folds traits, hopes into origami crane zero-g indicator ...

For one Canadian aerospace engineer, origami and its ability to turn something very large into something very small ... stars? One solution, he says, lies in an ancient form of art: folding paper.

In fact, two of the most popular forms of Japanese paper craft are origami and kirigami.