Balloon

Solar eclipses don’t just look cool – they can send gravity waves rippling through Earth’s atmosphere like dropping a stone in a pond. An international team of students has measured these gravity waves for the first time.

When NASA's high-altitude balloon lifts off from Antarctica in December 2023 at the start of its up to four week voyage over the South Pole, it will carry one of the largest mirrors ever to fly on such a high-tech gas bag.

When it comes to taking high-res aerial photographs, we generally look to satellites, drones or full-size aircraft. Colorado-based Urban Sky's new Microballoon system, however, is claimed to deliver higher-resolution images at a much lower cost.

While the Hubble Space Telescope has provided us with a wealth of data, getting it into orbit was quite expensive. The SuperBIT telescope is an intriguing alternative, as it hangs beneath a balloon instead of being launched by a rocket.

Balloons may seem outdated, but for high-flying scientific instruments they’re making a comeback. NASA has now unveiled ASTHROS, a new infrared telescope that will be carried to the edge of space by a balloon the size of a football stadium.

​​Researchers are developing a system to predict the path and intensity of hurricanes by harvesting data from inside the storm itself.

NASA Super Pressure Balloon (SPB) is edging closer towards the space agency's goal of 100-day-long flights, coming down to land on Saturday after 46 days in the air to set a new mid-latitude duration record for a balloon of its type.

Octopi can rapidly accelerate by sucking in and then expelling water. An international team of scientists have now replicated that system in a soft-bodied miniature underwater vehicle, which could pave the way for very quickly-accelerating full-size submersibles.

JP Aerospace will send students' science projects into the stratosphere - as long as they can fit inside a ping pong ball.

A father and son have obtained video footage of outer space, by attaching a video camera to a weather balloon.

Amateur radio enthusiasts help a Japanese enthusiast record high definition video in near space