A special exemption allowed a NASA-funded weather balloon to launch as planned Oct. 1, despite the ongoing government shutdown that began that day. But news about the balloon, and an exoplanet-hunting ...

A super pressure balloon with the HIWIND payload is inflated prior to launch during NASA’s 2025 New Zealand Super Pressure Balloon Campaign in Wānaka, New Zealand. Credit: NASA/Bill Rodman A super ...

The school was one of only 60 chosen from more than 700 applicants nationwide to design and launch an experiment aboard a ...

PALESTINE, Texas (KETK) — Eighty-one jobs are at risk at Peraton’s Palestine balloon operation center due to the impending expiration of its contract with NASA. Peraton’s contract with NASA for ...

World View, the near-space balloon company that will operate from a county-owned spaceport near Tucson International Airport, will participate in two recently announced NASA-funded space experiments.

A high altitude research balloon was spotted over the Albuquerque sky late Sunday night. The balloon was launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from Fort Sumner.NASA launches ...

NASA is sending things up into the air on a fairly regular basis; what isn't so regular is when a car-sized telescope comes ...

Ron Rinehart recalled that as a child "my ticket into science was my library card." Now he's helping Oregon school kids punch a ticket that's lighter than air: a helium-filled balloon lofting an ...

A large piece of NASA research equipment came down on a family farm in West Texas this week. The Walter family was at home Thursday when they saw a huge parachute in the sky. They took photos and ...

A years-long student-led NASA project that develops technology to help guide rockets will near its final destination this month on board the Balloon Optimization Opportunity Platform!, or BOOP!