The unknown crackling could be the sound of distant thunderstorms, falling meteors, or turbulence. Listen to the sounds a balloon hears 12 miles above Earth: from ocean waves to volcanic eruptions.

On a hot September day Tuesday, as temperatures soared to 92 degrees, Colorado State University students, researchers and others gathered at the parking lot outside the Department of Atmospheric ...

Up, up in the air ... scientific solar-powered balloons have recorded some strange sounds in the stratosphere researchers cannot identify. Daniel Bowman and other researchers at Sandia National ...

Giant solar balloons were sent 70,000 feet up in the air to record sounds of Earth’s stratosphere — and the microphones picked up some unexpected sounds. The stratosphere is the second layer of ...

NASA has selected nine student teams to launch scientific payloads on a NASA heavy-lift balloon for the 16th High-Altitude Student Platform (HASP) mission flying during the fall 2022 campaign in Fort ...

Commercial space flight is becoming more and more common, with companies including SpaceX, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic all transporting paid customers into space over the last several years.

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