This is because, when it’s filled with helium, a balloon can travel many miles into the sky before it loses the ability to float. When it falls back to Earth, the string, rubber or Mylar becomes ...

Meteorologists are launching fewer weather balloons across the United States as the National Weather Service loses staff.

Urban Sky will deploy high-altitude balloons over Colorado this year to ... Then the team packs one up, along with compressed helium or hydrogen gas, and drives a truck out to that location.

Ukrainian startup Aerobavovna is making waves with a low-tech warfare solution: helium-filled aerostats balloons that extend ...

So what happens when balloons take to the sky? "I know they go up until the pressure just basically explodes them, and they come back down in spaghetti pieces," Traynor said. Helium-filled ...

The robotics class launched their annual high-altitude weather balloon from the campus in drums. This year’s marks a first, with students aiming for a nighttime launch to capture the earth’s ...

The devices are lightweight balloons, filled with gas, usually helium, and attached to a piece ... stay in one place for a long time," he told Sky News. "Because of the way the Earth rotates ...

These weather balloons are loaded up with hydrogen or helium, soar into the sky, up to and beyond jet stream level, getting to a height of over 100,000 feet before they pop. Attached to the ...

using air-filled orbs instead of helium with the balloons coming down over a roomful of celebrants, not going up into the sky. If an event does call for helium balloons to be used outside ...

It took roughly 30 minutes for all 1,429,643 balloons to go airborne—like a “helium mountain” rising into the sky, as one reporter observed. It took roughly an hour before the 10-car pile-up ...

How the balloon went from a local sky oddity to an international diplomatic ... an Austrian daredevil, rode a helium balloon to an altitude of 128,100 feet, breaking the sound barrier before ...