The weather balloon being inflated at launch - it would become spherical at higher altitudes Twenty-five years later, Dale Sommerfeldt can laugh about the rogue weather balloon that resisted the ...

Unless there are Warhammer 40,000 nerds on the international space station, Michael Patterson is the first to send a 40k mini ...

High-altitude balloon photography offers a glimpse of Earth's landscapes from the stratosphere, a perspective typically ...

The cause of the albatross’s misery was evident: it was caught in a weather balloon. The balloon’s string, still attached to a radio transmitter, had gouged into the bird’s flesh ...

The next wintry storm system to move into North Carolina arrives late Friday into early Saturday. As is usually the case, the ...

It will come from some of the numerous helium weather balloons set to be launched 100,000 feet into the moon's shadow from across the parts of 15 U.S. states visited by the path of totality.

The data sampled by weather balloons gets fed into forecast models, making the forecast clearer days ahead of a storm.