A space elevator could make it much cheaper and faster to get goods to other planets, like Mars. The Obayashi Corporation based in Japan announced in 2012 plans to begin building one by next year ...

They say the devil’s in the details, but that’s not really true for the space elevator. The biggest hang ups in this concept are the most fundamental aspects of its design: the mass of the ...

We might not currently have any technology that would make a space elevator viable on Earth. But that doesn't mean they ...

A Canadian company, however, was recently awarded a patent on their design for a space elevator that would stretch up to around 12 miles above the Earth’s surface.

A spectacular design for a space elevator, with the goal of efficiently transporting passengers into outer space, has been awarded a $11,000 prize. As the BBC reports, British architect Jordan ...

An architect from Cumbria has won a €10,000 (£8,617) prize for his design of a new kind of space travel. Barrow-born Jordan William Hughes has designed an elevator that transports passengers ...

Two leaders behind the Seattle Space Needle's massive redesign say it was a huge undertaking and one that was crucial to ...

Spaceline: A Design for a Lunar Space Elevator . Paul Gilster Centauri Dreams March 8, 2025 Pat Rawling/NASA As Alex Tolley explains in today’s essay, a new idea being discussed in the literature ...

First imagined by Russian rocket scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in the late 19th century, the space elevator would extend from the ground through the atmosphere, then past "geostationary orbit ...

Space elevator concept wins €10,000 design prize. Image source, Jordan William Hughes. Image caption, The elevator would launch from an ocean ship. Published. 5 January 2024.