LONDON, England (CNN) -- A new space race is officially under way, and this one should have the sci-fi geeks salivating. The project is a "space elevator," and some experts now believe that the ...

Imagine stepping into an elevator and instead of going to the fourth floor you find yourself in outer space. A Virginia Tech engineering science and mechanics senior design team is working on ...

GOING (WAY) UP. For more than a century, the scientific community has kicked around the idea of space elevators. Specifics vary, but the basic design involves a vehicle of some sort that travels along ...

The concept of a space elevator, a consistently popular topic in works of science fiction, has been around since at least the late 19th century. The basic idea is to allow us to reach space by using a ...

Honestly, it's really more of a stratosphere elevator than a "space" elevator, but a new space elevator concept from Canadian company Thoth Technology(Opens in a new window) has some in the space ...

The transporter in this artwork is called the Clarke Clipper, after the British science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, who wrote about space elevators in his novel ...

For decades, the idea of riding an elevator to space has intrigued both scientists and sci-fi aficionados. Now, the pipe dream may be inching closer to reality. Scientists from Columbia University and ...

Space Elevator is an intriguing website that lets you make a myriad of discoveries as you travel up from Earth’s surface. Built by creative coder Neal Agarwal, the Space Elevator has a gorgeous, fun ...

One of the most critical components of the space elevator is the climber. It is second only to the ribbon in importance and perfection of design. As we will see shortly at the X-Prize Cup, building ...

It appears that no one won the Space elevator games competition for 2007. I previewed the competition. The University of Saskatechwan’s Space Design team came closest to winning. Their fastest run was ...

of the space elevator concept. If space elevators work out the way the idea's advocates hope, sending payloads into orbit would become as routine as, say, sending a shipment on a freight train - ...