YUBA COUNTY – While most people were trying to stay out of the rain on Thursday, a group of researchers was out in the thick of it launching weather balloons to better understand atmospheric rivers.

We modeled the capacity of water to hold heat more easily than air. With the first balloon, the flame was applied to the rubber skin separating air outside the balloon from air inside the balloon. The ...

SAN DIEGO — Scientists studying the marine clouds that shade and cool the earth launched a new climate science experiment at Scripps Pier Monday morning. "One of the great things about the San Diego ...

NASA’s Balloon Program Analysis Group recently presented a roadmap to NASA to guide them on how to plan and fund future balloon astronomy programs. Balloons have been used for over a century to ...

Residents in the Southern Hemisphere’s mid-latitudes, such as Argentina and South Africa, may catch a glimpse of a large NASA heavy-lift scientific balloon as it travels around the globe on a ...

Physicists at the University of Massachusetts Lowell developed a camera launched high into the atmosphere on a balloon early this month that will be used to help scientists develop theories about how ...

Early spring snow clung to the tree branches surrounding the Howe Hall parking lot as a dozen Iowa State University students began filling a high-altitude balloon with hydrogen just after dawn on ...