The Met Office has launched radiation sensors strapped to a weather balloon to go more than 100,000ft (30,480m) above its site in Cornwall to improve forecasts. The monitor launched at Camborne is one ...

New balloon-mounted space radiation probes developed by the Surrey Space Center at the University of Surrey have captured ...

Internet sleuths may have found evidence that it wasn’t space debris that hit a United Airlines flight last week, but a weather balloon. A WindBorne balloon, to be precise, seemed to be the culprit, ...

A United Airlines flight from Denver to Los Angeles was forced to make an emergency landing in Salt Lake City last week after an object hit its windshield at 36,000 feet. The impact cracked the glass ...

The mysterious impact of a United Airlines aircraft in flight last week has sparked plenty of theories as to its cause, from space debris to high-flying birds. However the question of what happened to ...

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday declared a nationwide security emergency and ordered the army and police to ...

A weather balloon project at Woodruff Middle School marked a new high for its STEM Club members and volunteers from a local ...

Ellie Robinson, a science teacher at the school near the New Forest, said the bear did "amazingly" to reach 27km (16.7 miles) ...

Third-grade students at Velma Linford Elementary joined forces with the University of Wyoming’s NASA Space Grant Consortium on Tuesday morning to launch a high-altitude weather balloon, combining ...

The pilots on a United Airlines jet struck by an apparent weather balloon during an October 16 flight near Moab, Utah were showered with glass before making an emergency landing, the National ...