The Pentagon is working on a new plan to rise above competition from China and Russia: balloons. The high-altitude inflatables, flying at between 60,000 and 90,000 feet, would be added to the Pentagon ...

The purpose of the project is to be used as a computing module in embedded devices, development projects, or educational settings as it creates an open hardware development board known as Balloon. The ...

HIGHLAND — Sue Chasteen, owner of It’s Party Time! in Highland, has been to join an international team of balloon professionals tasked in March with creating a gigantic immersive Balloon World of more ...

Over the weekend Google kicked off Project Loon, its experiment to work out whether it's possible to patch internet connectivity gaps around the world with a string of networked balloons. The project ...

For millions of Americans, spring weather is making this eclipse a nail-biter: Will clouds spoil their view? But that's not the case for the roughly 650 balloons being launched today by the Nationwide ...