Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A space elevator could make it much cheaper and faster to get goods to other planets, like Mars. The Obayashi Corporation based in ...

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 ...

The Periodic Graphics article in the July 1, 2024, issue of C&EN titled “The Science of Space Elevators” (page 25) is so oversimplified as to be tantamount to farce. The implication from the article ...

Honestly, it's really more of a stratosphere elevator than a "space" elevator, but a new space elevator concept from Canadian company Thoth Technology(Opens in a new window) has some in the space ...

LiftPort Group, the space elevator companies, today announced that it has successfully completed its second round of preliminary tests of its high altitude platform and robotic lifters. The tests, ...

We might not currently have any technology that would make a space elevator viable on Earth. But that doesn't mean they wouldn't work on other bodies around the solar system. One of the most ...

Howard Mark’s comments on the Periodic Graphics article about space elevators were very much to the point (C&EN, Aug. 5, 2024, page 5). I would like to add one other comment. The space elevator design ...

(via Kyle Hill) It’s hard to believe but space elevators have been theorized about for over a century. The physics are solid and the concept of these megastructures towering above us is so damn cool.