Startup firm Near Space Labs has been using stratospheric balloons to lift its AI robots to altitudes as high as 40,000 feet, ...

French fighter jets shot down high-altitude balloons with air-to-air missiles in a recent test. France warned that the battle for near-space is heating up and pointed to China's spy balloon over the ...

Members of Aerostar, an aerospace and defense company, conduct a high-altitude balloon launch from the Malemute Drop Zone during exercise ARCTIC EDGE 2025 (AE25) at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A mass ascension appears to be off the table Saturday morning as the 53rd annual Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta reaches its penultimate day. While organizers seem to have ...

Two new NASA space missions will probe mysteries that have long stumped astrophysicists and the rest of us: How did the universe begin? What gives cosmic rays such incredible energy? Both endeavors ...

Internet sleuths may have found evidence that it wasn’t space debris that hit a United Airlines flight last week, but a weather balloon. A WindBorne balloon, to be precise, seemed to be the culprit, ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Colorado is no stranger to strange objects floating or flying across the sky (remember “Balloon Boy” from October 2009?), and many residents wanted answers for a strange balloon seen ...

A group of sixth graders from Bowling Green, KY, with support from family and funding taken care of by backers on Kickstarter.com, have successfully sent a payload to the edge of space and taken a ...