At 66 feet long and 30 feet high, these "dumb" hydrogen-filled barrage balloons (sometimes holding as much as 20,000 cubic feet of gas) were floated thousands of feet into the sky and anchored to ...

Space Perspective recently reached a significant milestone by testing its prototype, Spaceship Neptune, which is based on an innovative concept: a space balloon. This stratospheric hydrogen-filled ...

Barrage balloons were used by many countries in WW2, including Britain and the U.S., and played a vital role in the Normandy landings on D-Day.

A hydrogen-filled weather balloon launches automatically from a Department of Energy atmospheric measurement facility in Utqiaġvik, formerly known as Barrow. About three years ago, Sandia ...

The company plans to take customers to the stratosphere using its Spaceship Neptune crew capsule powered by a giant, hydrogen-filled balloon. The flight is expected to happen next year.

After a series of test runs, he became convinced he could steer a hydrogen-filled balloon across the Arctic and over the North Pole.

A Hanoi woman suffered burns when a hydrogen-filled balloon exploded while she posed with a birthday cake at her celebration.

The cauldron at the Paris Olympics looks like a hot-air balloon It's a tribute to the first ride taken in a hydrogen-filled gas balloon.

China's education watchdog has banned the usage of hydrogen-filled balloons in school activities after an explosion injured nearly 100 students at a northwest China school last Sunday. "Education ...

Space Perspective’s Neptune capsule lifts off from marine spaceport Voyager beneath a massive, hydrogen-filled balloon. [Courtesy: Space Perspective] On Sunday morning off the coast of St ...

Space Perspective recently reached a significant milestone by testing its prototype, Spaceship Neptune, which is based on an innovative concept: a space balloon. This stratospheric hydrogen-filled ...

Instead of the usual ground-bound cauldron used at most Summer and Winter Games, the special edition for the Paris Olympics is intended as a tribute to the first ride taken in a hydrogen-filled ...