MISSOULA — MTN News received several reports on Monday of something floating over the skies of Montana. It turned out to be two high-altitude balloons on research flights from Aerostar, a South Dakota ...

“When they see the balloon, it just looks like a little white dot in the sky, right?” said Russ Van Der Werff, Aerostar vice ...

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French officials expressed concern over high-altitude objects beyond 20 km, an area which is becoming increasingly contested.

The phrase “teamwork makes the dream work” has become popular ever since a clergyman coined it a couple of decades ago. The ...

Incredibly brilliant images have been released this week of the Milky Way and other distant galaxies from the world's largest telescope at the Rubin Observatory in Chile. Derrick Pitts, chief ...

In May, the Royals and Boulevard sent a baseball and a can of Space Camper IPA to the edge of Earth’s atmosphere via high-altitude weather balloon. They released both items from the outfield of ...

Hazleton Area Academy of Science juniors and seniors launched a high-altitude weather balloon equipped with cameras and GPS. It's an annual end-of-year tradition.

The robotics class launched their annual high-altitude weather balloon from the campus in drums. This year’s marks a first, with students aiming for a nighttime launch to capture the earth’s ...

About 90 minutes later, it touched down in a rural area near Sebewaing, near the eastern shore of Saginaw Bay. The balloon reached an altitude of 67,900 feet and a speed of 146 miles per hour.

The beauty of balloon-borne flight is you don't have to be in supreme physical health to do it. Passengers will feel like they are in an extremely high-altitude lounge looking down on the Earth.

Here’s How Weather Balloons Can Harm Marine Animals Latex balloons designed to collect high-altitude data can become a threat after they burst ...