Its gimmick: it will start at 100,000 ft. from a balloon. Battling Air. When rockets are fired from the earth’s surface, they cannot start fast. If they move too fast too soon, the dense ...

Unlike rockets, balloons like these are cost-effective ... Along for the ride was a science instrument called the High-altitude Interferometer WIND experiment (HIWIND), which collected data on ...

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 ...

Science activities are a great way to spark ... and colour mixing. The Balloon Rocket Experiment is a fun and easy activity that teaches preschoolers about air pressure and motion.

NASA also states on its website that it uses a chase plane to track science ... sounding rockets offered new ways of getting experiments to the upper atmosphere. That’s because balloons still ...