Vertical lift heavyweight Sikorsky predicts that hybrid-electric propulsion systems will generate significant performance ...

A space elevator can serve two purposes—get the materials off of the surface and use leverage to fling them on a trajectory much faster than launching from the surface itself would be.

Before the ISS dies, however, it will help birth its own replacement—one that will be built and launched by the private sector, with the new modules constructed by Houston-based Axiom Space, and ...

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.

Imagine the engineering marvel and potential for easier space access with the construction of a space elevator.

Space elevators? Nuclear rockets? The future of space travel could look radically different.

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 ...

This space elevator, however, resides inside a pop-up arcade from Two Bit Circus, which earlier this year shuttered its 40,000-plus square foot play space in downtown’s Arts District.

Our Future Chronicles column explores an imagined history of inventions and developments yet to come. We journey to 2055, when a space elevator from the moon’s surface to near-Earth orbit was ...

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

Periodic Graphics: The science of space elevators Chemical educator and Compound Interest blogger Andy Brunning explores what kinds of materials we would need to build an elevator to outer space.