A Japanese team is testing a small prototype space elevator, according to news reports. It’s certainly not the…

Forget buying a stairway to heaven. Serious people are trying to build an elevator to space.

It might sound like the stuff of science fiction dreams, but a Japanese construction company has announced that it will…

So I have this running bet with myself that the "Singularity" (man's union with machine, et al) will arrive on a space…

Scientists in Canada have designed a cheaper, easier way to build mankind's millennium-old dream of a stairway to the…

Japanese scientists are so hyped up on the possibilities of building a real life space elevator that in just two…