As Jim Gottschalk readied his final approach shot of the day at Greystone Golf Course in White Hall, Maryland, he looked up to find something unexpected falling onto the 18th fairway—not an errant ...

WHEELING, W.Va. — A breathtaking view over 90,000 feet in the sky was achieved by a local science class. Fifth-grade students at Wheeling County Day School soared to new heights with a balloon project ...

Google parent Alphabet has announced that it is letting the air out of its internet-beaming balloon project — the latest of the tech giant’s “moonshot” programs to get scrapped. Loon, which used ...

The purpose of the project is to be used as a computing module in embedded devices, development projects, or educational settings as it creates an open hardware development board known as Balloon. The ...

For millions of Americans, spring weather is making this eclipse a nail-biter: Will clouds spoil their view? But that's not the case for the roughly 650 balloons being launched today by the Nationwide ...

A team of Mechanical Engineering students operating a high-altitude balloon outfitted with cameras helped livestream the recent annular eclipse as part of NASA’s Nationwide Eclipse Balloon Project ...

Google is succeeding in keeping high-altitude balloons aloft in the stratosphere for more than three months at a time — a key goal in its ambitious Project Loon program to deliver Internet from the ...

OAKLAND — Google’s parent company Alphabet is shutting down Loon, a high-profile subsidiary spun out from its research labs that used hot-air balloons to deliver cellular connectivity from the ...

Sarah Cole, a balloon artist in Stark County, organized a project to deliver balloon arrangements to more then 1,000 seniors for Valentine's Day. The Blessing Balloon Project was funded by donations ...