NASA's first scientific balloon flight of the 2025 Antarctica Balloon Campaign lifted off from the agency's Antarctic ...

There’s no starship to take scientists to the mind-boggling edges of the universe to watch and study cosmic childbirth firsthand. But a balloon-borne telescope should help cosmologists squint into the ...

Twice a day, every day, a white, 5-foot-diameter helium balloon will soar from a University of Arizona campus rooftop, dangling a miniaturized weather station that could improve weather forecasts and ...

High above Antarctica, two giant NASA balloons are being readied to drift along the edge of space, turning the polar sky into a laboratory for some of the hardest questions in physics. Instead of ...

Troposphere is the lowest layer of the atmosphere, stretching up to 16 to 17 km above the Earth’s surface over India and stratosphere lies above the troposphere, up to 50km wide India’s scientific ...

One instrument that they rely heavily on is the weather balloon. They've used it for years according to Meteorologist Jason Hansford: "We've been using these weather balloons now for my gosh for over ...

More than 60 scientists from a dozen institutions have converged on the urban area of Sacramento, California to study how tiny particles called aerosols affect the climate. Sending airplanes and ...

DURHAM Six "smart" balloons, each carrying a state-of-the-art, miniature ozone sensor designed and built by scientists at the University of New Hampshire, recently completed a series of flights ...

The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) here would launch 10 balloon flights this month under the auspices of the Department of Atomic Energy and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO ...