A team led by Prof. Angela Olinto was awarded NASA funding to fly an ultra-long duration balloon mission with an innovative ultra-sensitive telescope to pick up cosmic rays and neutrinos coming from ...

NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program is back in Antarctica, launching two exciting balloon missions that aim to uncover some of the universe’s biggest mysteries. The missions kicked off in early December ...

NASA on April 24 launched a football-stadium-sized, super-pressure balloon on a mission that aims to set a record for flight duration while carrying a telescope that scientists at the University of ...

Climate-Cooling Balloon Put to First Test Envisioning a worst-case scenario in which climate change spirals out of control, researchers in the United Kingdom are planning to test a hose-and-balloon ...

When US startup Make Sunsets released two weather balloons into the skies above Mexico’s Baja California peninsula last year, it kicked up a fierce debate about one of the world’s most controversial ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- What do tiny dust particles, 22-foot-wide red balloons and "concentrated" sunlight have in common? Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories recently used 22-foot-wide ...

Alexa Halford receives funding from NASA. She is also a member of the Sierra Club. I research space weather. That’s how physicists describe how storms on the sun end up affecting us here on Earth.

The balloon looks more like an enormous jelly fish when it lifts off. Helium buoys the top as the rest of its fabric skin hangs limp. It’s not a hot air balloon as we know it, where a pilot uses heat ...

A flotilla of microbe-seeking balloons deployed at very low cost in Venus’ atmosphere. Two researchers advocate sending a quick mission to Venus to try and quell debate over whether our sister ...