LUBBOCK, Texas — Multiple volunteer fire departments responded to a “runaway research balloon” on Friday afternoon that was a possible danger to Bledsoe and Morton, according to the ...

Some of them were later believed to be harmless research balloons, but that wasn’t known at the time. This led to even more concern about the state of defense systems. The radar systems that ...

China says it is a research balloon. The common view in the United States is that it is a spying device. We know that it doesn’t resemble other weather balloons. And it’s much larger than them.

Don and Brian Cleaver are the father-and-son team from Toms River who launched a Jersey Shore aeronautical adventure into the ...

NASA's Scientific Balloon Program has returned to Wānaka, New Zealand, for two scheduled flights to test and qualify the ...

Otto and Vera Winzen. Credit: RavenAerostar Winzen Research Inc. in Minneapolis, Minnesota took on the task of developing and manufacturing this new balloon. German-American aeronautical engineer ...

In another first, NASA launched a new kind of research balloon, a super-pressure balloon, that will stay afloat nearly twice as long as existing balloons. Scientific ...

A tethered balloon, developed by the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), was successfully deployed on Wednesday to assist in the construction of ...

These massive cuts to the National Weather Service are already starting to manifest in our backyard with weather balloons not ...

or research institutions, Biden said afterward. The search of debris in Alaska was later called off with no parts of the object recovered. Regarding the spy balloon incident, Liu Pengyu ...

A Chinese research group has developed a portable balloon-integrated photovoltaic system (BIPVS) for low-altitude applications. The proposed system is intended for emergency power needs in post ...