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 ...

The idea of an elevator that could transport humans into space with ease has long been a fantasy of science fiction writers. However, a new form of carbon ribbon could actually make it possible.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A very good one (a few hundred thousand for a research tool). is low 10's. <BR>Low earth orbit has significant atomic oxygen concentration, which is the WORST sort of atmosphere for doing useful ...