Tractor beam

A tractor beam is a device in science fiction that is used by starships to pull other starships (usually ones smaller than the starship using the device) toward themselves. One such popular use of this device is in the movie Star Wars: A New Hope, in which the Death Star battle station draws the Millennium Falcon into its hangar bay to capture its passengers.

Empath: The Luckiest Smurf stories
In the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story "Where No Smurf Has Gone Before", the Schliphargon starship uses a tractor beam to capture the spaceship that Empath, Dreamy, and Handy use to travel to the stars with.