Generations dreamed of reaching the Earth’s northernmost point, finally succeeding in 1926. Ahead of the centennial, we ...

Mumbai: A few vigilant citizens have raised concerns that colourful balloons sold to children in malls and on roads are ...

Long before Delhi’s artificial rainfall project, Dr S.K. Banerji created rain over Jadavpur using hydrogen balloons and silver iodide in 1952 ...

Explore the effectiveness and history of cloud seeding in India, focusing on recent trials in Delhi and their outcomes.

Despite the inherent issues of tip-jets, many tip-jet helicopter types have been built (or seriously considered), including ...

“A transmitter on the radiosonde sends the data back to tracking equipment on the ground every one to two seconds. By ...

Lithuania has closed its border with Belarus after smuggling balloons filled with cigarettes caused major disruptions at ...

Lithuania, a NATO and European Union member state, has shut its land border with Belarus until the end of November in ...

Long before the Wright brothers took to the skies at Kitty Hawk, humans had already tasted flight. The story begins not with ...

Smuggling balloons floating over the border from Belarus have shut down the airport in Lithuania's capital Vilnius for four evenings over the past week, with authorities branding it a "hybrid attack" ...

This year has seen an increase in cases where weather balloons are used for illegal activities — as noted by Nikolai Boreiko, the Deputy ...