In 1861, Lowe reached out to Professor Joseph Henry, the first Director of the Smithsonian Institution, for funding help.

The air has been let out of Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s troubled Tin Building food hall, which is set to be replaced by the Balloon Museum. Lux Entertainment signed a lease with the Seaport ...

After years of work building an exquisitely sensitive instrument, University of Chicago scientists stood and watched as it flew up and out of sight into the fiercely blue Antarctic sky. Launched on ...

ZANESVILLE – It didn't really set in until she witnessed a struggling couple, who battled for years to start a family, become overjoyed at a baby shower to celebrate their pregnancy. There, Dawn Haren ...

The massive stratospheric balloon, measuring about 9 feet in diameter and 40 feet long, was launched outside San Luis, Colo., on Jan. 14 by Urban Sky. This aerospace company operates stratospheric ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) — A local church member is leading a fundraising effort to create a dedicated youth space at Momentum Church of Albany, selling homemade food plates to raise money for the project.

London-based Acme Space has announced plans to test its unique balloon-rocket hybrid launch vehicle in the new year, ahead of commercial operations beginning in 2027. Its long-term plans see it ...

LONDON – London-headquartered ACME Space has unveiled plans to begin hardware tests of its balloon-launched orbital manufacturing vehicle Hyperion next year and hopes to commence commercial operations ...

Internet sleuths may have found evidence that it wasn't space debris that hit a United Airlines flight last week, but a weather balloon. A WindBorne balloon, to be precise, seemed to be the culprit, ...

The mysterious impact of a United Airlines aircraft in flight last week has sparked plenty of theories as to its cause, from space debris to high-flying birds. However the question of what happened to ...

Third-grade students at Velma Linford Elementary joined forces with the University of Wyoming’s NASA Space Grant Consortium on Tuesday morning to launch a high-altitude weather balloon, combining ...