OAKLAND, Calif. — Google parent company Alphabet is shutting down Loon, a high-profile subsidiary spun out from its research labs that used high-altitude helium balloons to deliver cellular ...

Google today shared an update from Project Loon, the company’s initiative to bring high-speed Internet access to remote areas of the world via hot air balloons. Google says it now has the ability to ...

While Facebook has its New Product Experimentation lab, Google has Google X where it plays around and presents moonshot projects that may (or may not) soar. Think self-driving division Waymo, ...

Google's parent company Alphabet has handed around 200 patents associated with its failed internet balloon startup, Loon, to Japanese investment giant SoftBank. Project Loon started out as one of ...

As Jim Gottschalk readied his final approach shot of the day at Greystone Golf Course in White Hall, Maryland, he looked up to find something unexpected falling onto the 18th fairway—not an errant ...

The idea of space technology often conjures images of men with 1960s-esque haircuts counting down to the takeoff of a large, several-billion-dollar rocket — not balloons. But balloons are one of the ...