NASA officials respond to reports claiming an exoplanet-hunting balloon crashed in Texas, with the project’s lead scientist explaining what really happened.

NASA launched an exoplanet-hunting experiment Oct. 1 despite the government shutdown. After the mission's end on Oct. 2, news ...

It’s called Project Loon 653, which is an Aerostar balloon that went up around 65,000 feet above surface level. News 9 was told this was part of a U.S. military project, and Lacey Swope said it’s ...

Republicans, conservatives and others have mocked the Biden administration’s decision to use a $400,000 missile to shoot down what may turn out to be a $12 hobby balloon last weekend, with some ...

Sen. Ted Cruz took to Twitter Thursday to criticize President Joe Biden for ordering an F-22 fighter jet to shoot down what may have been a hobby club’s science project off the coast of Alaska earlier ...

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!

St. Joseph High School ninth graders in physical science teacher Abigail Barker’s classes recently took part in a balloon-powered car project. “They used water bottles and balloons to construct a car ...

On Wednesday, September 28, 2022, an eighth-grade pre-engineering class at Lincoln Park Middle School and their teacher decided that they launch a weather balloon. This planning process for this ...

Lauren Riggs stood outside Franklin Elementary School and looked up at a second-story window, eagerly awaiting her big moment. With a crowd gathered around the front steps, her handmade apparatus was ...

The Met Office has launched radiation sensors strapped to a weather balloon to go more than 100,000ft (30,480m) above its ...