Last week, 250 scientists, engineers and experts gathered for an international space conference in Visby, Sweden. The four-day conference focused mainly on European balloon and rocket programs and ...

NASA's first scientific balloon flight of the 2025 Antarctica Balloon Campaign lifted off from the agency's Antarctic facility at 5:30 a.m. NZST Tuesday, Dec. 16 (11:30 a.m. Monday, Dec. 15 U.S.

Nestled in the pristine, frozen wilderness of northern Sweden, 200 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle, lies a remarkable facility that has quietly become a cornerstone of global space research and ...

European student teams are offered the chance to design and build experiments suitable for flight on balloons and sounding rockets to be launched from Esrange Space Center – Europe’s only land based ...

For several years scientists from the University of Iowa have been launching rockets from high-flying balloons to study cosmic rays at great altitudes. The advantage is that the rocket avoids most of ...

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. In the next KFVS12 Heartland Science Lab, science reporter Jason Lindsey will show you how to have a "blast" with science. Ingredients n ...

Before Jane Poynter and Taber MacCallum were entrepreneurs, they were researchers. Occasionally, they were even the subjects of their research: The pair first made headlines in the early ’90s when ...

Space flight enthusiasts talk confidently about trips to the moon, but so far no rocket, even an unmanned one, has climbed more than 0.25% of the distance—about 600 miles, unofficially credited to the ...

(via SciShow) From hypothetical magnetic levitation trains and space elevators that aren't even attached to the ground, to very real space cannons tested in the 1960s, humans have come up with a lot ...

Space Perspective CEO Jane Poynter says she is 'undoubtedly' going to be on one of the company's first flights. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...