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While Sir Arthur C. Clarke popularized the concept of the Space Elevator, it was Jerome Pearson and Yuri Artsutanov who did the original engineering, separately, on the concept originally put forward by Konstantin Tsiolk...

My thanks to our vibrant Twitter community. We've just reached 330,000 followers, including many of the planet's leading astronomers and scientists, astronauts, space observatories, news organizations, universities and g...

Sam Cristoforetti ‏@AstroSamantha Flying over the Himalaya and looking down onto #Katmandu valley. Impressive view! #HelloEarth...

Soyuz TMA-15M and Progress 57 are shown attached to the International Space Station in January 2015....

Moon and Back Media has release a three part interview with Michael Laine, President of the Liftport Group who are now focusing on a moon elevator. The interview dates back to the 2012 National Space Society Internationa...

From a false alarm on the International Space Station, to finding a long-lost lander on Mars, this has been a big week for news. Here are Space.com's picks for the biggest space stories of the week.

I've posted a lot of images of cyclones from space... but I have never seen anything like this! That is the view of the tropical cyclone Bansi, which has been blowing in the Indian Ocean, a few hundred kilometers east of...