On Tuesday, southcentral Alaskans may have noticed an unusual sight in the sky: a large white and silver balloon, carrying an ...

Astronomers have successfully launched a balloon-borne telescope that has begun capturing images of the universe on its first flight above the Earth’s atmosphere. The Super Pressure Balloon-Borne ...

Federal budget cuts have hit home, eliminating roughly 90 jobs at the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility, which has ...

China's Foreign Ministry has repeatedly described the balloon the drifted over the U.S. as an errant scientific craft, but Chinese military researchers have recently argued in publicly available ...

2024 Sweden scientific balloon campaign update! The XL-Calibur balloon mission launched from Esrange Space Center in Kiruna, Sweden, on Monday, July 8 at 11:04 p.m. EDT.

A federal report says Ottawa should assign a federal department or agency to manage public data on celestial sightings and ...

Unlike rockets, balloons like these are cost-effective for lengthy scientific missions because they allow extended data collection without the need for launch vehicles or complex propulsion systems.

NASA successfully launched a super pressure balloon from New Zealand's South Island Wanaka Airport Tuesday to conduct near-space scientific investigations.

The high-altitude Chinese balloon shot down at the beginning of February off the coast of South Carolina is vastly different than a typical weather balloon, said a manufacturer who supplies ...

The Ministry of Defence said the balloons offer low-cost surveillance as they don’t need a crew on board and can travel ...

The balloon also passed over Yellowknife before Richard Bose, a senior research engineer at WUSTL, said the payload landed 80 kilometres away from Délı̨nę, N.W.T., on Monday.