NASA just pulled off a sky-high feat: One of its massive super-pressure balloons completed a full lap around the Southern Hemisphere in just over 16 days. The globe-trotting balloon crossed the ...

A NASA scientific balloon mission just set a new agency record, spending 57 days floating in the skies above the South Pole. The mission, called the Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic ...

NASA preps one of its high-altitude balloons for launch. NASA/Bill Rodman After just over a day in flight, NASA was forced to ditch one of its massive high-altitude science balloons in the ocean ...

Giant balloons were in the news a lot this year, and NASA has some of the largest, which will launch early this month. When most people think of NASA they think of astronauts and spacecraft ...

Technicians from NASA's Scientific Balloon Program perform solar array testing on the Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) payload at Wānaka Airport, New Zealand. SuperBIT is the ...

NASA‘s super pressure balloon, carrying the Super-BIT telescope, has landed back on Earth after circling the Southern Hemisphere five times. The balloon, which comprises 18.8-million-cubic-feet ...