Hot air balloons today use either hydrogen or helium for initial liftoff, ... Spaceship Neptune will lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and land in water, ...

A Florida company plans to fly passengers to the edge of space in a pressurized capsule suspended from a balloon, with test flights starting next year. But is it all hot air?

When France's Montgolfier brothers sent a sheep, a duck and a cockerel 6,000 feet high aboard the world's first hot-air balloon in 1783, they couldn't have known their work would one day lead to ...

In addition to launching and watching more than 500 hot air balloons in its mass ascensions, the annular solar eclipse will start becoming visible in the midst of the scheduled signature mass ...

Last month, NASA funded a team of scientists to investigate the possibility of sending a mission to Venus, and now the agency has revealed more about the potential benefits and practicalities of ...

“I’ve launched in hot air balloons, so I know what they look like. This doesn’t look like a hot air balloon, because it doesn’t have a basket.” He called 911 when he saw it Friday morning.

In 1783, hot air balloons became the first viable option for people to explore the world from the sky.In the years since then, balloon flight technology has evolved from cloth balloons and open ...

The "aerobot" balloon concept out of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory could explore Venus without falling victim to the toxic atmosphere.

Oct. 5—Kelly Korreck's job is to study the sun. When there's an annular solar eclipse, she's going to be there. Korreck is the NASA program scientist who serves as head of science operations and ...