A special exemption allowed a NASA-funded weather balloon to launch as planned Oct. 1, despite the ongoing government shutdown that began that day. But news about the balloon, and an exoplanet-hunting ...

KRESS, Texas – Neighbors in North Texas were happy to see the Nasa logo after a large and mysterious object came down in their small farm town. Video shows the giant balloon parachuting down onto a ...

Before a space telescope ever reaches orbit, and long after satellites are up there, NASA has another way to do frontier science: high-altitude scientific balloons. These balloons can loft instruments ...