In 1783, hot air balloons became the first viable option for people to explore the world from the sky. In the years since then, balloon flight technology has evolved from cloth balloons and open ...

About 10 students from the University of Maine are preparing to launch a high altitude weather balloon that will livestream the total solar eclipse from the stratosphere on April 8. The big unknown is ...

San Diego Jewish Academy recently announced the successful launch of a high-altitude weather balloon by its physics students, which traveled roughly 60 miles northeast, was in the air for two hours, ...

Now that hundreds of hours of work by a group of Duke University engineering students has produced the school’s first high-altitude balloon launch and some important atmospheric data, the plan is to ...

Early spring snow clung to the tree branches surrounding the Howe Hall parking lot as a dozen Iowa State University students began filling a high-altitude balloon with hydrogen just after dawn on ...

(COLORADO SPRINGS) — Beginning Friday, Aug. 2, Edge of Space Sciences is hosting its 2024 Great Plains Super Launch bringing together amateur radio high-altitude ballooning enthusiasts from across the ...