The tech giant may have found its darling with Ibis-167. Surfing air currents and dodging the polar vortex, the Wi-Fi carrying balloon beat all odds in its recent journey. Dara Kerr was a senior ...

Google has started testing its Project Loon air-balloon beamed internet service in Sri Lanka, after striking a deal for spectrum with the government. The first of three balloons slated for the trial ...

WOODBURY, Minn.-- "So we're sending a near space balloon," explained Colleen Redmond, as casually as if her fourth graders at Gordon Bailey Elementary were building popsicle stick bridges. This ...

Even we laughed a little when Google X announced Project Loon-- an ambitious experiment built to give rural areas balloon-powered Internet access -- but one year later, the company may have proven its ...

Google parent Alphabet announced it was winding down its internet balloon spinout, Loon, in January. The tech giant transferred around 200 Loon patents to Japanese business partner SoftBank. Alphabet ...