NASA's first scientific balloon flight of the 2025 Antarctica Balloon Campaign lifted off from the agency's Antarctic ...

Our next story takes us to the ice of Antarctica, where NASA scientists are launching gigantic balloons that will rise up way into the stratosphere, to near space. Some of these balloons are so big ...

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SAN ANTONIO – Hello parents, teachers and students! Are you looking for something fun to do at home that has a little bit of science behind it? Well, check out this awesome at-home experiment from ...

New Year’s eve day balloon drops were sold out at the Chabot Space and Science Center and Hiller Aviation Museum on Wednesday ...

A balloon soars through Colorado skies during Thursday's drama. Anyone familiar with the physics of lighter-than-air lift would probably have suspected that 6-year-old Falcon Heene was not inside the ...

December 31 means people around the state will be partying and welcoming in 2026. But parents and kids had a chance to gather ...

CUMBERLAND, Md. — It's a chilly March morning, and Mary Bowden is standing in the parking lot of a local community college. Bowden is a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Maryland ...

Directionally, you never know where a balloon is going to go because the wind controls it. A balloon operator can send a balloon higher or lower, but not steer it in specific directions. So before ...

On a clear day in early fall, around sunrise, you might notice hot air balloons flying across the sky, but why do they navigate the skies so early in the day and how does weather play a role in their ...

Arizona is home to multiple hot air balloon festivals every year, and the colorful sky vessels are a popular tourist attraction in the state. While some come just to watch the colorful balloons take ...

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