NASA's first scientific balloon flight of the 2025 Antarctica Balloon Campaign lifted off from the agency's Antarctic facility at 5:30 a.m. NZST Tuesday, Dec. 16 (11:30 a.m. Monday, Dec. 15 U.S.

A group of sixth graders from Bowling Green, KY, with support from family and funding taken care of by backers on Kickstarter.com, have successfully sent a payload to the edge of space and taken a ...

The Met Office has launched radiation sensors strapped to a weather balloon to go more than 100,000ft (30,480m) above its site in Cornwall to improve forecasts. The monitor launched at Camborne is one ...

Rich Garcia and Erich Roeder dreamed of seeing themselves in space. Though neither is an astronaut, the Texas A&M graduates recently accomplished that childhood goal. Garcia, who lives in San ...

Footage shows a Lego man on a weather balloon being sent into space and crashing back down to Earth - for a unique school project. Staff and pupils at Gobowen Primary School in Shropshire sent up the ...

On this day in 2015, a Watford teenager made headlines after successfully launching a self-made weather balloon into space, capturing stunning images of the Earth's curvature. Chris Lane, an ...