The push for a space elevator took a step forward this week when a team of researchers from Shizuoka University in Japan announced that they will launch an experiment to the International Space ...

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 idea of a space elevator has been put forward for more than a century and now Japan is finally going to build one, but at a very small scale. Despite SpaceX’s attempts to drastically reduce the ...

We've seen all sorts of projects hit Kickstarter over the years from video games to iPhone docks and all sorts of stuff in between. What may be the strangest Kickstarter project I've ever seen is now ...

The push for a space elevator took a step forward this week when a team of researchers from Shizuoka University in Japan announced that they will launch an experiment to the International Space ...

Space elevators have long been a staple of science fiction. Now, scientists in Japan will test space-elevator tech from the International Space Station. The push for a space elevator took a step ...