The Royal Astronomical Society has introduced SuperBIT, a new balloon-based telescope that, it says, will fly to the verge edge of Earth's atmosphere to capture high-quality space images. SuperBIT is ...

Novel ways to move on other celestial bodies always draw the attention of the space exploration community. Here at UT, we've reported on everything from robots that suspend themselves from the walls ...

We've seen how billionaires raced to open the gates to space tourism. And while the idea of flying on a Virgin Galatic's suborbital spaceplane or taking a trip onboard Blue Origin's rocket might sound ...

The balloons were made to travel 35 kilometres above the Earth, before bursting and gently returning to the ground with a ...

At first listen, Earth’s stratosphere seems calm and quiet. But when researchers launched solar-powered balloons up 70,000 feet, they detected a hidden acoustic world — including mysterious noises ...

Have you ever seen a weather balloon pop? Most people never will, because the balloons can rise upwards of 20 miles into the atmosphere. However, amateur astronomer Michael Riffle pointed his lens to ...

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WASHINGTON – A new NASA project will use more than 40 high altitude balloons to return new scientific insights about Earth’s Van Allen Belts. The type of radiation in the belts can be hazardous to ...