It’s pretty easy to take a balloon, fill it up with helium, and send it up in to the upper atmosphere. It’s much harder to keep track of it and recover it when it falls back to Earth. If you’re trying ...

An official chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS), SPES is open to all students aims to introduce students to the ...

BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. — A balloon attracted the attention of the public Friday while flying near Denver. The large, white balloon was spotted flying at high altitude near Longmont Friday morning. The ...

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San Diego Jewish Academy recently announced the successful launch of a high-altitude weather balloon by its physics students, which traveled roughly 60 miles northeast, was in the air for two hours, ...

A balloon intercepted by fighter aircraft over Utah on Friday was a "likely hobby balloon" and has since left United States airspace, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said Saturday ...

A “lighter-than-air” high-altitude balloon flew over Moab and into Southwest Colorado Monday morning, April 22 on its way to Florida. When it passed over Hawaii last week, people mistook it for some ...

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 ...