A story that begins with three animals riding in a balloon ends with the discovery of protons impacting our atmosphere with ...

It's variously called skimming, splash'n'dash, or balloon sailing — where a hot air balloonist ... "You're always flying downwind, but we use the layers [of air at different altitudes] to ...

The normally twice-daily launches of weather balloons in about 100 locations provide information that forecasters and computer models use to figure ... 100,000 feet in the air with sensors called ...

With massive job cuts, the National Weather Service is reducing vital weather balloon launches in eight northern locations WASHINGTON -- With massive job cuts, the National Weather Service is ...

In the end, though, the final act of the Japanese balloon bomber program was a starring role in my own personal adventure—and one of the U.S. Air Force’s first publicity efforts. For my part ...

FILE - A National Weather Service weather balloon sits ready for launch in the Upper Air Inflation Building at ... that forecasters and computer models use to figure out what the weather will ...