Getting into space is hard, not to mention expensive. Only a few people go every year. What if, instead of rocket propulsion, you could just hop on a space elevator? It sounds far fetched but for 10 ...

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 ...

For decades, humans have been strapping themselves to large rockets in order to literally blast themselves into outer space.

A regular traction elevator works by using a strong cable to move the elevator cabin up and down between the floors in a building through 'traction' which means 'pulling' or 'lifting'. There is a ...

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, CALIF. -- -- EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, CALIF. -- A robot powered by a ground-based laser beam climbed a long cable dangling from a helicopter Wednesday, qualifying for prize ...

Google is hard at work creating automated home appliances, robots and a space elevators in a secret lab known only as Google X. Google has already used some of its ideas, most notably its ...

The established wisdom seems to be that it's not something we can expect to see any time soon, let alone see receiving a budget allotment. However, there's a few compelling reasons I can think of: So ...

The creation of a space elevator proposed by Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky remains an extremely difficult and ...

As for what's affordable... that's all in the eye of the beholder. The world has spent trillions of dollars on space launches already, with very little to show for it mass-wise. A low-g mass driver ...