The 5th and 6th year students at an elementary school in the UK recently created and launched a weather balloon camera that yielded some spectacular views of Earth.The students of St. Bridget’s Church ...

It’s a brisk December morning at Spaceport Tucson, America’s premiere (only?) dedicated launch pad for stratospheric balloons, and a small army of technicians in reflective vests is milling around on ...

ROMA - Floating 2,500 feet above scrub-covered U.S. ranchland near the Mexico border, the payload of high-tech cameras onboard a balloon being used by the Border Patrol can easily see a cluster of ...

Near Space Labs, a Brooklyn, New York-based startup, invented "Swifts," or stratospheric, AI-enabled robotic cameras that fly on weather balloons. Space Labs is using Swifts to assess property risk, ...

NASA has created a new type of balloon that could be a cheap alternative to launching new space telescopes. The project is being headed by a team of researchers from Durham, Toronto, and Princeton ...