For decades, the astronomical cost of overcoming Earth’s gravity has posed a significant barrier to space exploration.

But this Kickstarter project aims to fund research that will eventually make a space elevator possible ... But we hope to see an Earth-Moon freight system like the one shown in the diagram ...

FROM the 2050s, it is largely hoped that humans will travel to space, in a similar way to how they travel abroad. It won’t be ...

If the space agency sticks to its schedule ... then transport the astronauts from lunar orbit to the moon’s surface. After landing, an elevator will emerge from the vehicle and lower the ...

The space elevator may be a very real possibility within our lifetimes. Previously the stuff of science fiction novels, scientists and engineers around the world will continue their discussion at ...

the reverse space elevator method, proposed by Zephyr Penoyre and Emily Sandford, implies that the cable would pass through the Lagrange point — the point between the Earth and Moon where their ...

The nine shortlisted sites, which were released by NASA on Monday (Oct. 28), are geologically diverse, and each of them has ...