Richard Massey has received funding for SuperBIT from the Royal Society and from UKRI's Science and Technology Facilities Council. Fionagh Thomson has carried out consultancy work for the UK space ...

For today’s episode of For Science! we show you an easy way to get those pesky helium balloon down from the rafters after a celebration. This experiment is very simple and straight-forward but will ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Have you ever had a helium balloon in your car and notice that its movements are much different than you would expect? If you never noticed, it is certainly something to see. It ...

NASA and the National Science Foundation have achieved a new milestone in conducting scientific observations from balloons, by launching and operating three long-duration flights within a single ...

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 ...

Helium gas prices jumped 135 percent on-year in a 2018 U.S. government auction. The helium price surge has hit users including party supply seller, Party City, which saw its share price tank 30 ...

Our next story takes us to the ice of Antarctica, where NASA scientists are launching gigantic balloons that will rise up way into the stratosphere, to near space. Some of these balloons are so big ...