Our next story takes us to the ice of Antarctica, where NASA scientists are launching gigantic balloons that will rise up way into the stratosphere, to near space. Some of these balloons are so big ...

Student volunteers prepare two balloons for a morning launch in Cumberland, Md., as part of a nationwide project to study the April 8 eclipse. (Meredith Rizzo for NPR) Student volunteers prepare a ...

Japan’s Tohoku University has been developing a unique disaster-prevention system through its Tsunami Balloon Project.

It's probably just the National Eclipse Ballooning Project (NEBP) livestreaming and doing science above 99.5% of the atmosphere. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

CUMBERLAND, Md. — It's a chilly March morning, and Mary Bowden is standing in the parking lot of a local community college. Bowden is a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Maryland ...