Travis O’Brien, associate professor in the IU department of earth and atmospheric sciences, started the program with ...

A mysterious object that cracked a windshield on a United Airlines flight, injuring a pilot and forcing an emergency landing, may have been a weather balloon.WindBorne, a California start-up focused ...

A United Airlines plane appears to have collided with a weather balloon while cruising over Utah at 36,000 feet last week, fracturing layers of its windshield and forcing an emergency landing. A ...

Growing supply chain disruptions could put a pause on weather balloon launches from some locations ...

World View’s Stratollite flies closer to Earth than a satellite. Here's where it flew over Florida. Did you see it?

Two pilots ended up being covered in glass after a passenger jet collided with an apparent weather balloon at 36,000 feet, officials have said. On Thursday, Oct. 16, United Airlines flight 1039 had ...

United Airlines flight 1093, carrying 111 occupants, diverted safely to Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC) after the strike, which preliminary data suggests may have involved a high-altitude ...

Weather balloons provide information that meteorologists and computer models use to forecast the weather and figure out how ...

Students from Piedmont Elementary School launched a weather balloon on Friday afternoon. “This is one of the biggest highlights of the year for these kids,” said Piedmont Science and 5 th Grade ...

As Western North Carolinians braced for an incoming winter storm last week, professor Doug Miller and his students in the University of North Carolina Asheville’s Department of Atmospheric Sciences ...