ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The World Space Elevator Competition (WSPEC), a new non-profit initiative designed to promote the next generation of STEAM fields worldwide, today announced the ...

Admittedly, at least for now, the idea of a beanstalk-style space elevator connecting Earth and space is a stretch. But next month’s X Prize Cup will host the Space Elevator Games, an unprecedented ...

The human body can withstand much greater loads than its sheer material strength would suggest. Sprinters can push an Achilles tendon to more than 75 percent of its tensile strength, while ...

A spectacular design for a space elevator, with the goal of efficiently transporting passengers into outer space, has been awarded a $11,000 prize. As the BBC reports, British architect Jordan William ...

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-elevator tech, a longtime sci-fi staple, is about to get a test here in the real world. The Japanese STARS-Me (Space Tethered Autonomous Robotic Satellite-Mini Elevator) payload arrived at the ...

The space elevator is one of those ideas that seems to have an endless supply of lives. Originally proposed about a century-and-a-quarter ago, this concept calls for a tether of supermaterial that ...

Space elevators to ferry passengers and cargo to and from orbit could be built using existing materials, if the technology takes inspiration from biology to fix itself when needed, a new study finds.

Next time you step inside an elevator, imagine it has a button marked “space.” It may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but researchers in Japan are prepping an experiment for this month to ...

The new lunar space elevator study differs from previous proposal would be anchored on the moon and stretch 200,000 miles toward Earth until hitting the geostationary orbit height (about 22,236 miles ...

The concept of using an “elevator” to travel from Earth to space has been around for quite some time, with an early concept first proposed in 1959 by Russian engineer Yuri Artsutanov. But now, that ...