With an object in geostationary orbit, you could run a cable down to Earth. Boom—there's your space elevator. But wait! There are some problems. Can you imagine a cable that's 36,000 kilometers ...

BROOKLYN, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HITN and Edye expand Earth Day celebrations all throughout the month of April with the Festival de la Tierra to emphasize the importance of caring for our Earth ...

It would be much easier to escape Earth's gravity if you could skip the energy-intensive rockets. That's the idea behind the Spaceline, a newly-proposed type of space elevator that would link the ...

Councillors have objected to plans to build a solar farm covering more than 1,000 hectares of land on the Lincolnshire and ...

The high-capacity fiber-optic cable will have 24 fiber pairs, the largest ever built. And it will span an impressive 31,000 miles, which is over 6,000 miles more than the Earth’s circumference ...

All in the new cable, which is codenamed Project Waterworth, is planned to be 31,000 miles or 50,000 kilometers. For the record, the Earth's circumference comes in at just under 25,000 miles.

Meta (formerly Facebook) plans to build the world's longest undersea cable that will be longer than the Earth is round. The high-capacity, fiber-optic cable that will link five continents will ...

For the first time since 2005, Earth is bracing to be hit by a powerful, G4 geomagnetic storm. NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) expects the arrival of at least five coronal mass ...

Planet Labs, an Earth imagery provider to the government and business sectors, has agreed to join forces with special acquisition purpose company dMY Technology Group (NYSE: DMYQ) in a merger deal ...