An International Space Elevator Consortium launched in 2008, holding conferences in Europe and Japan. Then in 2012, a Japanese company announced plans to build a space elevator by 2050.

An elevator to the moon might not be as crazy as it sounds. A moon-based elevator to space could radically reduce the costs and improve the reliability of placing equipment on the lunar surface ...

Expensive, unsustainable rockets have served as our primary means to exit Earth, but space elevators present a cheaper way to enter outer space. Although new materials are needed, space elevator ...

Solar farms in orbit, nuclear power on the moon, space elevators and interstellar travel — which might we see happen first?

The idea of a space elevator has captured imaginations for decades, but is it actually possible to build one? This video explores the science, engineering challenges, and materials needed to make ...

Humanity's quest to explore—and, perhaps eventually, colonize—outer space has prompted a great many ideas about how precisely to go about it.

For decades, the staggering cost of escaping Earth's gravity has limited our reach into space. Sending just one kilogram into orbit can run tens of thousands of dollars.

Space elevator chase yields Earthly rewards NASA has $4 million on the line for inventors creating the technology that could one day link Earth to the stars.

Space elevators? Nuclear rockets? The future of space travel could look radically different. Imagine taking an elevator to space. Or blasting off in a nuclear rocket. That might sound like science ...

An elevator to the moon might not be as crazy as it sounds. A moon-based elevator to space could radically reduce the costs and improve the reliability of placing equipment on the lunar surface ...

Whereas an elevator from Earth would be quite chunky, perhaps ferrying multiple elevator cars up and down simultaneously, the space-line would be a thin wire with a total mass of 40 metric tons.