There’s no starship to take scientists to the mind-boggling edges of the universe to watch and study cosmic childbirth firsthand. But a balloon-borne telescope should help cosmologists squint into the ...

Troposphere is the lowest layer of the atmosphere, stretching up to 16 to 17 km above the Earth’s surface over India and stratosphere lies above the troposphere, up to 50km wide India’s scientific ...

image: Team members work on the ComPair balloon instrument before it begins thermal vacuum chamber testing at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. ComPair project manager Regina ...

Located on the campus of the Agriculture College in Shivajinagar, the Central Agro-meteorological Observatory has been ...

More than 60 scientists from a dozen institutions have converged on the urban area of Sacramento, California to study how tiny particles called aerosols affect the climate. Sending airplanes and ...

Twice a day, every day, a white, 5-foot-diameter helium balloon will soar from a University of Arizona campus rooftop, dangling a miniaturized weather station that could improve weather forecasts and ...

The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) here would launch 10 balloon flights this month under the auspices of the Department of Atomic Energy and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO ...

A U.S./Japanese testbed for a possible space telescope has returned the first high-energy "hard" X-ray image of a body in space from a balloon flight to 128,000 ft. Normally such X-rays scatter off an ...

Not all NASA launches need rockets and countdowns. Eric Hand sees the alternative in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. You have full access to this article via your institution. On the day of the launch Mark ...