Might solar energy provide the power needed to send cars up a space elevator? Could you build one fat elevator and split it into two? Can as many as six cars travel up and down a space elevator? Those ...

ROANOKE, Va. – One Roanoke man living with autism is hoping to elevate others with autism one lift at a time through his passion for elevators. Andrew Reams, 45, is known as Diesel Ducy on his online ...

SEATTLE—“I think building an elevator to space is maybe the best thing I could do in the world,” Michael Laine says. His company, Liftport, has just raised over $62,000 on Kickstarter to build robot ...

LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — Some people have hobbies that are just plain weird. That's how Andrew Reams, in fact, describes his hobby — elevator photography. "Ever since I've been a little kid, I've been ...

There's a unique collection of elevator artifacts in southwest Virginia, and you've probably never heard of it. Andrew Reams has been collecting elevator button panels for decades and now stores them ...

If the space elevator dream comes true, robo-cars powered by laser light will roll on a carbon-nanotube ribbon stretching up tens of thousands of miles from Earth's surface, carrying cargo and ...

While much of the first day of the Space Elevator Conference was dedicated to the problem of space trash, the concept also faces another significant challenge. “We have one big problem — everything ...