Gravity can be a grueling taskmaster. Anyone who’s walked up a dozen flights of stairs knows this. Getting into space is that much harder. It takes hundreds of thousands of pounds of thrust and over ...

Discover how the groundbreaking idea of a space elevator is moving from science fiction to reality as leading innovators in Japan and China invest in this futuristic technology. Learn about the ...

Getting into space is hard, not to mention expensive. Only a few people go every year. What if, instead of rocket propulsion, you could just hop on a space elevator? It sounds far fetched but for 10 ...

Google is hard at work creating automated home appliances, robots and a space elevators in a secret lab known only as Google X. Google has already used some of its ideas, most notably its ...

The established wisdom seems to be that it's not something we can expect to see any time soon, let alone see receiving a budget allotment. However, there's a few compelling reasons I can think of: So ...

We might not currently have any technology that would make a space elevator viable on Earth. But that doesn't mean they wouldn't work on other bodies around the solar system. One of the most ...

LaserMotive’s photovoltaic-powered machine became the first in the 3-year history of NASA’s space elevator contest to climb a 2,953-foot-long ribbon, securing a prize of $900,000. However, they fell ...

As for what's affordable... that's all in the eye of the beholder. The world has spent trillions of dollars on space launches already, with very little to show for it mass-wise. A low-g mass driver ...