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

Finally, the Earth moves a little bit beyond one complete revolution, so the stick again points towards the sun for a second ...

A space-elevator experiment is now at the International Space Station. The technology it's testing, if implemented on a large scale, could revolutionize spaceflight, advocates say.

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.

A space elevator as conventionally conceived would consist of a cable anchored on the ground and extending beyond geosynchronous orbit, some 42,000 kilometers (26,098 miles) above Earth. Such a ...

The Space Elevator Conference will present the sixth annual Family Science Fest at the Museum of Flight from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. The event is included in the cost of museum admission, ...

Space elevators are often dismissed as a science fiction dream, but I believe they will exist soon—perhaps in two or three decades. Throughout my career as an aerospace engineer and physics ...

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

A blue-collar community in New Jersey put $100,000 on the table in 2005 and hoped it would be the springboard that would send elevators — full of payloads, and eventually people — to space.

The push for a space elevator took a step forward this week when a team of researchers from Shizuoka University in Japan announced that they will launch an experiment to the International Space ...

"Space elevators, in essence, hold the promise of transforming humanity into a spacefaring civilization," de la Torre says. "They could present a safe, ...