A stairway to heaven is so 20th century. Japan wants to build an elevator. Later this month, researchers at Shizuoka University will begin testing for a “space elevator,” which would connect earth and ...

You’re on an elevator. An earthquake hits. It’s scary. The power goes out, and now you’re stuck. And you gotta go, bad. Luckily, Japan is putting emergency toilets on elevators to prevent such ...

A space elevator could make it much cheaper and faster to get goods to other planets, like Mars. The Obayashi Corporation based in Japan announced in 2012 plans to begin building one by next year. Not ...

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 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 ...

When you finally take that lunar vacation, you may find yourself traveling not by space shuttle, but by elevator. Space elevators may be our best bet for establishing colonies on the moon, potentially ...

Leave it to Japan to come up with the most unconventional solutions to its problems. Due to the amount of power-outages it has been having due to another powerful earthquake that shook the islands ...

The Russian Progress 69 (69P) resupply ship approaches the International Space Station, delivering over three tons of food, fuel and supplies. A space elevator could provide a way to deliver supplies ...

Japan Elevator Service Holdings Co., Ltd. ( (JP:6544)) has provided an update. Japan Elevator Service Holdings Co., Ltd. has revised its consolidated earnings forecast for the fiscal year ending March ...

Illustration for a Space Elevator concept is taken from the geo-stationary transfer station looking down the length of the elevator structure toward Earth. NASA Two tiny satellites are on their way to ...

An update from Japan Elevator Service Holdings Co., Ltd. ( (JP:6544)) is now available. Japan Elevator Service Holdings Co., Ltd. reported a strong performance for the second quarter of the fiscal ...

Countless attempts have been made to perfect the world's first working "space elevator" - a concept that has emerged since the dawn of the Space Age. In theory, a functional space elevator would work ...