âÄúWe are preparing our minds to leave the planet, and at the same time take more care of the planet,âÄù artist Tomas Saraceno said as he discussed the Museo aero solar, a giant solar balloon ...

The University of Delaware research team used a sheet to protect their balloon from the strong winds while they filled it with helium. Credit: Beatrix Nowak. (Beatrix Nowak) From Philly and the Pa.

AMES, Iowa — Iowa State University sent some of their students to the path of the total solar eclipse on Monday to track atmospheric measurements as part of an aerospace engineering course. As the ...

Early spring snow clung to the tree branches surrounding the Howe Hall parking lot as a dozen Iowa State University students began filling a high-altitude balloon with hydrogen just after dawn on ...

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 ...

Plymouth State University students and faculty participated in the NASA-funded Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project in Pittsburg, sending up balloons with sensor equipment every half hour between ...

Got your eclipse glasses? The certified safe kind? You know sunglasses are not enough to protect your eyes from the sun’s intense radiation, right? Got your game plan ready? Where you’ll be on Monday, ...

BOULDER–In a landmark test flight, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and a team of research partners this month successfully launched a solar telescope to an altitude of 120,000 feet ...