NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program is back in Antarctica, launching two exciting balloon missions that aim to uncover some of the universe’s biggest mysteries. The missions kicked off in early December ...

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 ...

University of Chicago researchers have begun examining data collected by a device transported by a NASA balloon that flew ...

The atmospheres of exoplanets have been a focal point of the field lately, with the James Webb Space Telescope taking a look at as many as it can manage. But time on the world's most powerful space ...

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University of Chicago researchers have begun examining data collected by a NASA balloon that flew over Antarctica for 23 days ...

After years of work building an exquisitely sensitive instrument, University of Chicago scientists stood and watched as it flew up and out of sight into the fiercely blue Antarctic sky. Launched on ...

Standing on your porch you look out at the land in front of you, after a brief glance up you see a floating device, suspended by a white and orange parachute. As it lands, you spot the NASA logo 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!

KRESS, Texas – Neighbors in North Texas were happy to see the Nasa logo after a large and mysterious object came down in their small farm town. Video shows the giant balloon parachuting down onto a ...