A view of the Grand Canyon taken from an altitude of approximately 30 kilometers on a World View balloon test flight Oct. 24. The company hopes such views will entice customers to purchase $75,000 ...

A commercial spaceflight company that wants to send people on balloon-powered capsule trips to the edge of space has completed a prototype test of its ambitious endeavor. The rest of this article is ...

French fighter jets shot down high-altitude balloons with air-to-air missiles in a recent test. France warned that the battle for near-space is heating up and pointed to China's spy balloon over the ...

WASHINGTON — Spanish high-altitude balloon specialist Zero 2 Infinity completed its first test flight of Bloostar, a balloon-assisted small-satellite launcher four years in development. During the ...

BRETT VELICOVICH: …Why does it take an uproar from the public before the administration is going to take decisive action? I mean, this was a test and we played right into the Chinese long-term ...

NASA wants to send a giant silver balloon to the hellish world of Venus, where the floating robot would explore the toxic Venusian atmosphere. Functional tests of a smaller prototype recently took ...

OTIS — A balloon will be flown at a height of 180 feet near Big Pond in Otis for four hours Wednesday — the first visual test of how a new cellular telephone tower would change the rural landscape.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Hundreds of volunteers took giant balloons on test flights Saturday at Citi Field in preparation for the 95th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. "I am so excited. I love ...

NASA's humongous scientific balloon didn't quite hit the agency's ultimate goal, but it still set a flight duration record after flying for 46 days, 20 hours and 19 minutes. The agency launched the 18 ...