The balloons were made to travel 35 kilometres above the Earth, before bursting and gently returning to the ground with a ...

A group of sixth graders from Bowling Green, KY, with support from family and funding taken care of by backers on Kickstarter.com, have successfully sent a payload to the edge of space and taken a ...

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 ...

On this day in 2015, a Watford teenager made headlines after successfully launching a self-made weather balloon into space, capturing stunning images of the Earth's curvature. Chris Lane, an ...