Last week, 250 scientists, engineers and experts gathered for an international space conference in Visby, Sweden. The four-day conference focused mainly on European balloon and rocket programs and ...

Completes major milestone in bid to win international ‘New Race to Space’ competition. TORONTO, Ontario – Canada’s da Vinci Project unveiled its full-scale engineering prototype rocket, which ...

A years-long student-led NASA project that develops technology to help guide rockets will near its final destination this month on board the Balloon Optimization Opportunity Platform!, or BOOP!

CUMBERLAND, Md. — It's a chilly March morning, and Mary Bowden is standing in the parking lot of a local community college. Bowden is a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Maryland ...

Student volunteers prepare two balloons for a morning launch in Cumberland, Md., as part of a nationwide project to study the April 8 eclipse. (Meredith Rizzo for NPR) Student volunteers prepare a ...