Tekapo/Christchurch (New Zealand), Jun 15: Search giant Google this week has launched giant balloons into the stratosphere with the goal of providing internet access to the entire planet. The ...

Seattle Children's Theatre, 441-3322. Through Dec 30. THE RED BALLOON is about a boy named Pascal who really wants a pet, but is not allowed to have one. One day Pascal finds a big red balloon. The ...

In this June 10 photo released by Google, Jordan Miceli prepares electronics to launch balloons in Tekapo, New Zealand. Google is testing the balloons which sail in the stratosphere and beam the ...

It sounds audacious or sci-fi: a tethered balloon the size of Wembley stadium suspended 12 miles above Earth, linked to the ground by a giant garden hose, pumping hundreds of tons of minute chemical ...

Commercial satellite imaging is a billion-dollar industry, with large companies regularly capturing detailed images of Earth from above. Near Space Labs, a growing startup based in the Brooklyn Navy ...

Mars gets a lot of attention from earthlings these days, but recently Venus is coming under the spotlight, with NASA, its European counterpart ESA, and New Zealand spaceflight company Rocket Lab all ...

One innovator says the greatest threat to a clean-energy world is kids with BB guns. There are plenty of good ideas for moving the world beyond fossil fuels, but most of them aren’t practical with ...