Explore a world of inventive science experiments with everyday items such as balloons, a smartphone, and a plastic bottle.

Our next story takes us to the ice of Antarctica, where NASA scientists are launching gigantic balloons that will rise up way into the stratosphere, to near space. Some of these balloons are so big ...

Students from Newcastle head to outback NSW to launch two balloons into the Earth's upper atmosphere.

👉 Watch the video of Sarah’s school science experiment at Sun Valley Elementary here! Hello parents, teachers and students! If you’re looking for fun way to explore meteorology with your elementary ...

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 ...

After a series of weather-related delays and a trimester of preparation, La Jolla Country Day School third-graders launched a high-altitude balloon containing experiments and technology for the second ...

Student volunteers prepare two balloons for a morning launch in Cumberland, Md., as part of a nationwide project to study the April 8 eclipse. (Meredith Rizzo for NPR) Student volunteers prepare a ...

A years-long student-led NASA project that develops technology to help guide rockets will near its final destination this month on board the Balloon Optimization Opportunity Platform!, or BOOP!

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Scientists with NASA are launching enormous balloons, the size of a football stadium, from the Antarctic ice. They're carrying experiments on dark matter and other mysteries. Our next story takes us ...

CUMBERLAND, Md. — It's a chilly March morning, and Mary Bowden is standing in the parking lot of a local community college. Bowden is a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Maryland ...