As part of a hands-on STEM class through the Upward Bound program, students at West Virginia State University launched ...

NASA is developing small, cheap “smart balloons” to monitor weather conditions around rocket pads on launch days. The announcement comes only a few months after a space shuttle fuel tank was ...

In a tweet Wednesday morning, employees of the National Weather Service in Phoenix said "last night's bright object was NASA's research balloon." A NASA spokeswoman confirmed to The Arizona ...

A new partnership provided federal researchers with important weather data and Central Michigan University meteorology students with valuable hands-on experience.

This time around, NASA hopes to keep the balloon aloft at just over 100,000 feet for a full 100 days, as originally planned for the ill-fated balloon flight last year.

so it goes up in the weather balloon with a bunch of other ones, just like this. PROBABLY NOT JUST LIKE THIS. THE TEAM’S A LITTLE BIT NERVOUS ABOUT HOW THE PROJECT WILL PERFORM, BUT THEY’RE READY.

On Oct. 13 - 14, the U of I team will join 400 high schools and middle school students in Lakeview, Oregon to launch these weather balloons. This 30-hour launch session will be held during the ...

Their balloon carried instruments to study gravity waves in the atmosphere, which affect the weather but have been hard for forecasters to pin down in the past, and ozone, the chemical in the ...

When NASA launches a high-altitude weather balloon this summer, it will carry an experiment by South Milwaukee Middle School students. Alec Johnson. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

An Air Force member releases a weather balloon off the deck during the recovery operation for NASA's Orion Capsule on Dec. 11, 2022. Pool Getty Images North America ...