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. Not ...

Gravity can be a grueling taskmaster. Anyone who’s walked up a dozen flights of stairs knows this. Getting into space is that much harder. It takes hundreds of thousands of pounds of thrust and over ...

Humanity's quest to explore—and, perhaps eventually, colonize—outer space has prompted a great many ideas about how precisely to go about it. While conventional wisdom suggests that space launch via ...

LiftPort Group, the space elevator companies, today announced the release of “LiftPort — The Space Elevator: Opening Space to Everyone,” a new book on the LiftPort Space Elevator, a revolutionary new ...

Solar farms in orbit, nuclear power on the moon, space elevators and interstellar travel — which might we see happen first? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Space Elevator Project A simulation sci-fi game where players take on the role of the project manager of a space elevator project. They will progressively ...