Scientists are working on a 22,000-mile space elevator, a cable stretching from Earth to space. This 'sky ladder' could ...

With a space elevator, you don't need rockets or fuel ... Locating the tether base at the equator would lessen the likelihood of hurricanes, but it would still need to be in the open ocean ...

The space elevator may be a very real possibility within our lifetimes. Previously the stuff of science fiction novels, scientists and engineers around the world will continue their discussion at ...

Major general contractors in Japan are getting behind space development as they eye the Artemis lunar exploration project, which envisions the construction of a permanent base on the moon for human ...

Why build a space elevator? "The space elevator will reduce the cost of getting from Earth to space. It will also allow us to take very large payloads into space very easily, very safely.

DARPA wants space structures that are grown rather than built, and the building blocks for these new structures are living ...

It’s the stuff that Science Fiction is made of: an elevator that climbs its way into space rather than needing a rocket to get there. Can it be done? No. But this Kickstarter project aims to ...

Cathedrals and skyscrapers stay upright by lowering their centre of gravity They do this by placing the centre underground, counteract the height A space elevator would use a similar principle ...

"Some examples of structures that could be biologically manufactured and assembled, but that may be infeasible to produce traditionally, include tethers for a space elevator, grid-nets for orbital ...