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 ...

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 ...

Growing up, we all had to do all kinds of science projects in school. For Baby Boomers, here are several classic science ...

It's probably just the National Eclipse Ballooning Project (NEBP) livestreaming and doing science above 99.5% of the atmosphere. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Before a space telescope ever reaches orbit, and long after satellites are up there, NASA has another way to do frontier science: high-altitude scientific balloons. These balloons can loft instruments ...