An online rumor circulated last week that suggested that one of NASA's high-flying research balloons, used to hunt for exoplanets, had crashed in Texas. But the leader of the mission has since ...

NASA’s Balloon Program Office successfully completed the second test flight of its Super Pressure Balloon (SPB) at 3:54 p.m. EDT, Saturday, July 2, setting a new flight duration record for a ...

Giant balloons were in the news a lot this year, and NASA has some of the largest, which will launch early this month. When most people think of NASA they think of astronauts and spacecraft, not ...

A NASA scientific balloon mission just set a new agency record, spending 57 days floating in the skies above the South Pole. The mission, called the Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz ...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Two students from the University of Central Florida will be joining a team from the University of North Florida and another from Florida International University to participate ...

NASA is about to launch a flock of giant balloons from Antarctica to the edge of space – for science, of course. On December 1, as part of NASA’s annual Antarctic Long Duration Balloon Campaign, teams ...

NASA has completed a series of scientific balloon flights over Antarctica during a campaign that began in early December. Four balloons were launched from a site near McMurdo Station on the Ross Ice ...

NASA's Scientific Balloon Program has returned to Wānaka, New Zealand, for two scheduled flights to test and qualify the agency's super pressure balloon technology. These stadium-sized, heavy-lift ...

WASHINGTON (nasa) – Slowly rising from the Northwest region of Manitoba, Canada, near a small gold-mining towncalled Lynn Lake, a massive NASA balloon began a journey August 25 that took it to the ...