The push for a space elevator took a step forward this week when a team of researchers from Shizuoka University in Japan announced that they will launch an experiment to the International Space ...

We've seen all sorts of projects hit Kickstarter over the years from video games to iPhone docks and all sorts of stuff in between. What may be the strangest Kickstarter project I've ever seen is now ...

The idea of a space elevator has been put forward for more than a century and now Japan is finally going to build one, but at a very small scale. Despite SpaceX’s attempts to drastically reduce the ...

Back in the late 1970s, Arthur C. Clarke caused a stir when he brought to the public’s attention the idea of a space elevator: a much easier, cheaper, faster and convenient way to defeat Earth’s ...

Space elevators have long been a staple of science fiction. Now, scientists in Japan will test space-elevator tech from the International Space Station. The push for a space elevator took a step ...