Directionally, you never know where a balloon is going to go because the wind controls it. A balloon operator can send a balloon higher or lower, but not steer it in specific directions. So before ...

NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program has reached new heights, both literally and figuratively, with four successful ...

Arizona is home to multiple hot air balloon festivals every year, and the colorful sky vessels are a popular tourist attraction in the state. While some come just to watch the colorful balloons take ...

NASA has successfully concluded its scientific balloon campaign in Antarctica, aimed at studying cosmic particles and ...

On a clear day in early fall, around sunrise, you might notice hot air balloons flying across the sky, but why do they navigate the skies so early in the day and how does weather play a role in their ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Science Central joined WANE 15 Saturday Morning to show how matter in the air might inhibit blowing up a balloon. Colton Mishler with Science Central brought two balloons ...

NASA has completed a series of scientific balloon flights over Antarctica during a campaign that began in early December.

CUMBERLAND, Md. — It's a chilly March morning, and Mary Bowden is standing in the parking lot of a local community college. Bowden is a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Maryland ...