A South Korean research team has successfully recovered a high-altitude science balloon from the sea after launching it into the stratosphere. This marks the world's second successful sea recovery of ...

Before a space telescope ever reaches orbit, and long after satellites are up there, NASA has another way to do frontier science: high-altitude scientific balloons. These balloons can loft instruments ...

Before a space telescope ever reaches orbit, and long after satellites are up there, NASA has another way to do frontier science: high-altitude scientific balloons. These helium balloons can loft ...