The concept of a Space Elevator might seem like science fiction, right? However, what if we told you that a company in Japan ...

Mountain View, CA – The Spaceward Foundation in collaboration with NASA today announced a significant expansion of the Power Beaming and Tether Challenges. These two events are collectively known as ...

LiftPort Group, the space elevator companies, today announced its support for NASA’s new blueprint for the space exploration program. “We’re pleased to see the renewed national commitment to the ...

Engineers have spent decades trying to design a cable strong enough to stretch from Earth to orbit, but gravity, tension, and physics still stand in the way.

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 ...

Solar farms in orbit, nuclear power on the moon, space elevators and interstellar travel — which might we see happen first? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...