A creative DIY project showing how to build a handmade hot air balloon aerostat capable of lifting a small camera into the ...

Solar eclipse atmosphere science takes center stage today as 80 NASA-supported balloons fly over Iceland, probing whether two ...

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 ...

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The NASA-backed Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project puts students in charge of a bold scientific endeavor to study the April 8 total solar eclipse. On eclipse day, hundreds of students will send up ...

👉 Watch the video of Sarah’s school science experiment at Sun Valley Elementary here! Hello parents, teachers and students! If you’re looking for fun way to explore meteorology with your elementary ...

A WashU team launched the Dilution Refrigerator Transition Edge Sensor (DR-TES) mission on Sept. 24 from NASA's scientific balloon facility in Fort Sumner, N.M. The mission is testing a sophisticated ...

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 ...

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 ...