Don and Brian Cleaver are the father-and-son team from Toms River who launched a Jersey Shore aeronautical adventure into the ...

The discovery that inert helium can form bonds with iron may reshape our understanding of Earth’s history. Researchers from ...

“It’s the time of year that we have some of our ... It takes 90 minutes to an hour to fill a weather balloon with helium or hydrogen, get it fitted with a sensor, then ready it for launch ...

Weather balloons are an “essential piece of the forecasting system.” But there will be fewer of them in tornado season this ...

there wasn’t enough helium to get it going. On the second launch attempt, the balloon took off without the carriage, disappearing into the atmosphere to whereabouts unknown. “The third time it ...

Meteorologists and former National Weather Service leaders say reducing vital weather balloon launches will degrade the ...