The Balloon Museum's new exhibition at San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts is a playful collection of larger-than-life ...

Mill Valley first-graders and best friends June Campbell and Poppy Morton were in their matching sparkly dresses when they walked into a giant helium sphere covered in spikes with charcoal on the tips ...

They were, that is, like air. Morrow, 29, lives in a small apartment in Houston, and makes his living as a wedding videographer. But his true passion, passed down from his parents, is balloons.

Enormous crowds gathered in Paris to watch one balloon after another rise above the city rooftops, carrying the first human beings into the air in the closing months of 1783.The excitement quickly ...