Home elevators aren’t just for mansions anymore. Discover why more homeowners see them as a must-have for aging in place.

Backed by state grant funding, Rolling Meadows is spending $650,000 to buy a portion of a strip mall on Algonquin Road to ...

St. Vincent de Paul Place held a ribbon cutting for its new elevator on June 24. It will be used for transporting clients and ...

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 ...

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

Ceres, the Queen of the Asteroid Belt, is a dwarf planet that could prove crucial in humanity's quest for expansion in space. According to data collected by the Dawn spacecraft, it is made up of ...

The design was inspired by early sketches of the Space Needle, which opened as the centerpiece of the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair. The gold elevator capsules still appear the same from the outside.

Unlike a traditional Earth-based space elevator, which would require materials that don’t yet exist, the moon-based design minimizes gravitational tension.

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 ...

For the first time in nearly 150 years, the space elevator is out of the realm of sci-fi and into the orbit of mission possible. Two astronauts are stuck in space. Soon, the solution could be an ...

Obayashi Corporation first announced its plan for a space elevator in 2012. The company said it would start construction on $100-billion project in 2025 and operations could begin by 2050.