Ride This Bizarre, Old-School Elevator Before They All Shut Down The paternoster elevators of Europe are weird, a bit scary and getting harder and harder to find.

An illustration of a space elevator. NASA/MSFC By some estimates, a well-designed elevator would cut the cost of cargo transportation to as low as $100 per kilogram.

A space elevator untethered to Earth, with both of its ends hanging in space, might cut the costs of space travel to high orbit by 40 percent, researchers report in a new Acta Astronautica study.

Although this event is often heralded as the turning point in elevator history, its relevance may have been inflated by the subsequent success of the Otis Elevator Company, today’s largest ...

In a study published Aug. 25 on the online research archive arXiv, the students contend that it’s technologically and financially feasible to build such a "lunar space elevator," which was first ...