NAGOYA—A balloon launched by high school students ... over the Earth in video footage because the blue color of the sky became deeper as the balloon gained altitude. “While the jet-black ...

Browse a gallery of the U.S. Air Force's high-altitude balloon experiments and the researchers, scientists, and test pilots who made them possible.

Most amateur high altitude balloon payloads descend back to earth with a simple non-steerable parachute and can land hundreds of kilometers from the launch site in inaccessible areas. [Yohan Hadji ...

The Hackaday reader might be able to expand on that a bit, as we’ve covered several projects that have lofted various bits of equipment into the stratosphere courtesy of a high-altitude balloons.

A pair of German daredevils took a walk across a slackline suspended between two hot air balloons and earned a world record ...

This year will mark the fourth time her team is applying for a $20 million NASA grant to launch a high-altitude balloon from McMurdo station in Antarctica. Equipped with a high-resolution ...

A Florida-bound flight crew witnessed strange orbs glowing and darting around in the night sky while flying over the Bahamas at high altitude ... incidentally aired footage of an orb appearing ...

Google hopes to bring the internet to more people around the world through the use of high-altitude balloons, the internet services giant announced Saturday. Google says that two out of every ...