Lily clutched giant blue number balloons for the age 28 along with a 'Happy Birthday brother' and Fireman Sam balloons and bags of gifts and food. The star - whose breakthrough role saw her star ...

Credit: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / getty It's a bird, it's a plane, it's one of up to 25 giant surveillance balloons currently floating over the Midwest and spying on everything in their path.

It was once home to the supersonic airliner, Concorde, but today, mostly weather balloons occupy the near-space environment. Another upside of Urban Sky’s balloons is cost, he says.

US startup Urban Sky is launching balloons into the stratosphere to test the technology as an inexpensive way to detect, track, and ultimately prevent the spread of wildfires.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Hundreds of volunteers took giant balloons on test flights Saturday at Citi Field in preparation for the 95th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. "I am so excited.

Around the same time, on August 1, a giant balloon was launched from the back of a pickup truck. Floating up to the stratosphere, the region between four and 31 miles above the Earth’s surface ...