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 ...

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 ...

The skies turned “Bluey” on Saturday as Macy’s tested their newest balloons for the upcoming Thanksgiving Day Parade. The Bluey balloon, from the popular Disney Junior cartoon about a 6-year-old ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...