Balloons are taking to the sky off the shores of several Cape Cod beaches, and they aren’t just for show. The balloons are ALTA SmartBalloons, large, white balloons that resemble oversized beach balls ...

A 65-year-old Russian adventurer was battling sleep deprivation, freezing temperatures and ice in his oxygen mask but was ahead of schedule for his record attempt to fly solo in a balloon around the ...

Google's Project Loon to float global internet in high-atmospheric balloons sounded far-fetched, but the floating web platform is already circling the globe an update from the team reveals. Tests of ...

NASA doesn’t just launch rockets. It also launches balloons. And a high-tech NASA balloon is currently traveling in the winds of the stratosphere in the Southern Hemisphere. The space agency launched ...

We’ve reported on “space” balloons before. Heck, some of us have even launched a few. Usually they go way up in the air, take some cool pictures, and land within driving (and retrieving) distance the ...

A man in South Africa is doing something that only the animators over at Pixar ever dreamed of: he wants to travel to various places across the globe using multicolored balloons to do so. Recently ...

What is it with men and big balloons? Every other month, it seems, some man is trying to circle the planet on helium and hot air. We are treated to their hourly escapades. High winds over the Sahara!

Within a year, Google is aiming to have a continuous ring of high-altitude balloons in the Southern Hemisphere capable of providing wireless Internet service to cell phones on the ground. That’s ...

The Portland Playhouse has transformed its studio into a blizzard-like, life-size snow globe. The “Snow Much Joy” pop-up art installation allows visitors to wander through a display of hundreds of ...

Trevor Macduff (KS1LAS) is a high school teacher in Tri-Cities and founder of nonprofit SILAS Education. Has been connecting with educators, STEM leaders, and amateur radio gurus all over the world to ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. The report says Google will begin with a small fleet, but the company’s endgame is to blanket the sky with ...