What is the nature of dark matter? A new experiment led by Columbia University physics professors aims to find out.

A suite of scientific balloons is about to lift off from NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility’s field site in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, carrying instruments that will help scientists understand ...

A scientific experiment aimed at detecting dark matter in space launched from Antarctica on December 15, with significant contributions from University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

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 ...

World View, the near-space balloon company that will operate from a county-owned spaceport near Tucson International Airport, will participate in two recently announced NASA-funded space experiments.

Elementary through high school student researchers from across the United States are scheduled to launch their experiments on a high-altitude NASA scientific balloon from Fort Sumner, N.M., no earlier ...

In Palestine, mammoth balloons are assembled at a NASA complex nestled off a two-lane country road. These balloons can inflate to the size of a football stadium and rise to altitudes where the sky ...

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