NASA's first scientific balloon flight of the 2025 Antarctica Balloon Campaign lifted off from the agency's Antarctic ...

A NASA scientific balloon mission just set a new agency record, spending 57 days floating in the skies above the South Pole. The mission, called the Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz ...

NASA’s Balloon Program Office successfully completed the second test flight of its Super Pressure Balloon (SPB) at 3:54 p.m. EDT, Saturday, July 2, setting a new flight duration record for a ...

Giant balloons were in the news a lot this year, and NASA has some of the largest, which will launch early this month. When most people think of NASA they think of astronauts and spacecraft, not ...

The first to be funded as part of the Explorers Program, GUSTO will spend at least 55 days floating above Antarctica. The first to be funded as part of the Explorers Program, GUSTO will spend at least ...

An online rumor circulated last week that suggested that one of NASA's high-flying research balloons, used to hunt for exoplanets, had crashed in Texas. But the leader of the mission has since ...

Two students from the University of Central Florida will be joining a team from the University of North Florida and another from Florida International University to participate in NASA’s National ...

NASA is about to launch a flock of giant balloons from Antarctica to the edge of space – for science, of course. On December 1, as part of NASA’s annual Antarctic Long Duration Balloon Campaign, teams ...