The White Sands Balloon Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary and returns to the White Sands National Park and the Ed Brabson Balloon Park in Alamogordo, New Mexico next month.

WHITE SANDS, N.M. (KRQE) – The White Sands Balloon Festival is celebrating its 30th anniversary. The festival is returning next month, and hundreds of people all the way from Arizona to Colorado ...

Jan. 16 The next sighting of the balloon is over the South China Sea. It is now higher, at around 62,000 feet, ... A series of three satellite images in black and white.

US weather balloons are fairly small, with a diameter of about 5 feet at launch. But they expand as the air around them gets thinner. At high altitude, they’re up to 25 feet across.

A white balloon-like machine resembling a giant jellyfish, wafting over metro Denver and northeastern Colorado on Friday morning, turned a few heads. It was carrying NASA instruments that measure ...