Looking for a reason to put up a balloon and payload into near-space? Not that one’s necessary, but the Global Space Balloon Challenge has got a variety of good reasons for you to do so ...

A new video has revealed a remarkable first in hypersonic flight – an unmanned Chinese MD series aircraft being launched in near space from a high-altitude balloon, reaching a speed of Mach 7 ...

The constant daylight of Antarctica's austral summer and stable stratospheric wind conditions allow the balloon missions to remain in near space for days to weeks, gathering large amounts of ...

Fan of hot air balloons? Now you could fly into space, well almost, in something similar and as early as 2024. World View Enterprises, an American near-space exploration and technology company ...

Petersburg, on Thursday. On Sunday, Neptune floated up thousands of feet near the edge of space beneath a giant Space Balloon ...

it will likely include jaw-dropping footage of what the eclipsed sun and the moon's shadow look like from near space. It will come from some of the numerous helium weather balloons set to be ...