Learn what to expect on your ride to the edge of space aboard Space Perspective's Spaceship Neptune capsule. CEO Jane Poynter ...

What if a drone could rise from the ground, float to the edge of Earths atmosphere, and conduct surveillance? That futuristic ...

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 ...

Nearly half of Americans want to travel to space. But that means the other half doesn’t, according to a 2021 survey by ValuePenguin, one of LendingTree's financial research websites. Nearly 40% said ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A company wants to use an advanced balloon to fly customers from Earth’s surface in Alaska to the highest reaches of the planet’s atmosphere. Florida-based startup firm Space ...

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Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Stratospheric balloons are powerful tools used to study the Earth and its atmosphere, as well as the greater cosmos beyond. This book ...

Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner, renowned worldwide for his record-breaking "edge of space" jump in 2012, has died at age 56 in a paragliding accident in Porto Sant'Elpidio, Italy. The tragic ...

Keep it right here for live video of the Red Bull Stratos. Launching from Roswell, New Mexico, Felix Baumgartner will ascend to 120,000 feet in a stratospheric balloon then freefall back down to earth ...