The concept of using an “elevator” to travel from Earth to space has been around for quite some time, with an early concept first proposed in 1959 by Russian engineer Yuri Artsutanov. But now, that ...

The concept of using an “elevator” to travel from Earth to space has been around for quite some time, with an early concept first proposed in 1959 by Russian engineer Yuri Artsutanov. But now, that ...

NASA's Orion spacecraft flies by the moon, with Earth seen rising in the distance, during the Artemis I mission in 2022. Credit: NASA It sounds like a joke or the stuff of a children's fantasy novel: ...

A space elevator capable of shuttling robots or humans from the Earth to space remains decades away. But a company headed by a former NASA researcher says it can build a space elevator on the moon ...

Come 2025, and assuming everything goes according to plan on Artemis mission number two, humans will finally make a comeback to the Moon. That's more than two years from now from our perspective, but ...

Ahead of NASA’s long-awaited return to crewed Moon landings, the space agency is testing an elevator that will carry astronauts from their spacecraft to the lunar surface. If all goes as planned, this ...

NASA’s highly anticipated Artemis III mission will see the first woman and first person of color step onto the lunar service in a moment that will also mark the first human lunar landing since 1972.

Gravity can be a grueling taskmaster. Anyone who’s walked up a dozen flights of stairs knows this. Getting into space is that much harder. It takes hundreds of thousands of pounds of thrust and over ...

For decades, the staggering cost of escaping Earth's gravity has limited our reach into space. Sending just one kilogram into orbit can run tens of thousands of dollars. Costs climb even higher for ...

NASA astronauts tested SpaceX's elevator concept for the Artemis lunar lander that will bring humans back to the surface of the moon as early as 2025. SpaceX was selected to build the spacecraft that ...

When astronaut Chris Hadfield serenaded the Earth with Bowie’s Space Oddity, many of us got cracking with back-of-the-envelope calculations attempting to figure out how much the guitar cost to send up ...