NASA concluded a balloon mission in which a super-pressure balloon circumnavigated the Earth over the southern hemisphere in just a few days. This is an important step in testing this technology. NASA ...

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 ...

NASA’s super pressure balloon completed a full lap around the Southern Hemisphere on Saturday (May 3), after 16 days of flight. (Image credit: NASA) "While it would have been preferable to ...

[Courtesy: NASA] A scientific balloon mission underway at the South Pole has set the record for longest flight of any NASA heavy-lift, long-duration balloon mission, according to the space agency.

“We’ve also recorded sounds whose origin is unclear.” Bowman and his collaborators have conducted research using NASA balloons and other flight providers, but they decided to build their own ...

NASA will be launching a high-altitude balloon this summer. When it does, a team of eighth-graders from the Warren Consolidated Schools Middle School Mathematics Science Technology Center (MS ...

Gabriel Garde, head of NASA’s Balloon Program, leads the return to Wānaka, New Zealand, to flight-qualify giant super pressure balloons for 100-day missions in near-space. The 18.8-million ...

The GUSTO mission will launch on a scientific balloon in December. [Credit: NASA] A NASA C-130 Hercules successfully made its first flight to Antarctica on Saturday, delivering the Galactic ...

A stadium sized balloon has successfully launched from Wānaka Airport - after several cancellations. The super-pressure NASA balloon will travel the Southern Hemisphere’s mid-latitudes for ...