A super pressure balloon with the HIWIND payload is inflated prior to launch during NASA’s 2025 New Zealand Super Pressure Balloon Campaign in Wānaka, New Zealand. Credit: NASA/Bill Rodman A super ...

A special exemption allowed a NASA-funded weather balloon to launch as planned Oct. 1, despite the ongoing government shutdown that began that day. But news about the balloon, and an exoplanet-hunting ...

Standing on your porch you look out at the land in front of you, after a brief glance up you see a floating device, suspended by a white and orange parachute. As it lands, you spot the NASA logo and ...

Chief Meteorologist Carson Vickroy sat down with Ross Hays, who works as a meteorologist at the NASA Columbia Balloon Facility in Palestine. The two discussed Ross's career in weather, the process of ...

A high altitude research balloon was spotted over the Albuquerque sky late Sunday night. The balloon was launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from Fort Sumner.NASA launches ...

World View, the near-space balloon company that will operate from a county-owned spaceport near Tucson International Airport, will participate in two recently announced NASA-funded space experiments.

Ron Rinehart recalled that as a child "my ticket into science was my library card." Now he's helping Oregon school kids punch a ticket that's lighter than air: a helium-filled balloon lofting an ...

A years-long student-led NASA project that develops technology to help guide rockets will near its final destination this month on board the Balloon Optimization Opportunity Platform!, or BOOP!