A special exemption allowed a NASA-funded weather balloon to launch as planned Oct. 1, despite the ongoing government shutdown that began that day. But news about the balloon, and an exoplanet-hunting ...

A high-altitude scientific balloon operated by NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility, carrying the EXCITE instrument for exoplanet atmospheric studies, experienced an anomaly during its flight ...

KRESS, Texas – Neighbors in North Texas were happy to see the Nasa logo after a large and mysterious object came down in their small farm town. Video shows the giant balloon parachuting down onto a ...

Seabirds foraging at sea face deadly threats from eating plastics and being caught up in longline fisheries bycatch, but a new study reveals their color preferences play a big part in their ...