After a journey of a decade, what started as Project Loon by Google is no more. Promoted as a way to bring communications to the most remote parts of the globe, it used gigantic, high-altitude ...

MAPLE GROVE, Minn. — No matter if it's done in memoriam or celebration, it creates a problem floating across the country. As we wrap up Earth Month, Ronnie from Ellsworth wants to know: What happens ...

The Chinese balloon that drifted across the US last week flew far higher than passenger jets. How high and how far can they travel? In May 2002, a balloon launched from the Sanriku Balloon Centre (SBC ...

Alex Davies covers autonomous vehicles and other transportation machines for WIRED. To provide coverage over an area, Loon runs packs of five to 10 balloons. Together, they can provide an aerial mesh ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. There has been a fresh wave of balloon sightings across several ...

After 16 weeks in an industrial compost heap, we unearthed blue and white balloons and found them totally unscathed. The knots we spent hours painstakingly tying by hand more than four months ago were ...

A tradition that Greeks have adopted for Easter is sending glowing hot-air balloons into the night sky in celebration of ...