CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) Google is launching Internet-beaming antennas into the stratosphere aboard giant, jellyfish-shaped balloons with the lofty goal of getting the entire planet online.

A group of sixth graders from Bowling Green, KY, with support from family and funding taken care of by backers on Kickstarter.com, have successfully sent a payload to the edge of space and taken a ...

The Met Office has launched radiation sensors strapped to a weather balloon to go more than 100,000ft (30,480m) above its site in Cornwall to improve forecasts. The monitor launched at Camborne is one ...

On this day in 2015, a Watford teenager made headlines after successfully launching a self-made weather balloon into space, capturing stunning images of the Earth's curvature. Chris Lane, an ...