Wildland firefighters could have a new tool in their arsenal as they battle increasingly extreme wildfires: high-altitude balloons ... using ambient air to go up or down and wind currents to ...

But people flew much earlier than that by using hot air balloons as well as gas-filled ... project to test multi-stage parachutes made for high-altitude ejections. This was dangerous testing.

Experience spring in all its glory from the skies at these picturesque destinations across the globe promising mild weather ...

Girl Scouts of Hawaii says it wants to encourage girls to become interested in STEM fields: science, technology, engineering, ...

South Milwaukee Middle School students are working on a project that will be launched by NASA through its TechRise Student Challenge.

A tethered balloon, developed by the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), was successfully deployed on Wednesday to assist in the construction of ...

These modules will guide you through the skill-building activities of a balloon payload workshop. If you have any questions or run into problems as you build, email [email protected] In order to ...

NAGOYA—A balloon launched by high school students soared into the stratosphere and captured our blue, round planet on cameras from an altitude of about 28 kilometers. Members of the astronomy ...