The first super pressure balloon flight of NASA's New Zealand Balloon Campaign reached its float altitude after lifting off ...

The Balloon Museum's new exhibition at San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts is a playful collection of larger-than-life ...

The weather was 55 degrees with clear skies — ideal conditions for a launch. The only problem was the wind. A steady ...

A fire has broken out at the flower market in Dhaka's Shahbagh. Five Fire Service units are on-site working to control the ...

Upper air measurements are taken by a group of sensors called a radiosonde. A radiosonde is a very small instrument package that is suspended below a balloon inflated with hydrogen or helium. These ...

Meteorologists and former National Weather Service leaders say reducing vital weather balloon launches will degrade the accuracy of forecasts just as severe weather season kicks in.

May require $150 deposit. Nadine Pugliese, owner of 110 Party Supply in Melville, uses helium to inflate balloons for a birthday party order. Credit: Barry Sloan Owner Nadine Pugliese is seeing ...

A National Weather Service weather balloon sits ready for launch April 27, 2006, in the Upper Air Inflation Building ... aren’t launching because of a helium shortage and a third that is ...

FILE – A National Weather Service weather balloon sits ready for launch in the Upper Air Inflation Building at ... that aren’t launching because of a helium shortage and a third that is ...