When the US government shot down a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon off the South Carolina coast on 4 February, it ramped up geopolitical tensions with China and prompted officials to tighten ...

Nearly 4,000 households lost power in Southern California this week. The culprit? A shiny balloon, utility officials say. "We have thousands of these outages every year — it's a big problem," a ...

Scott M. Osprey is at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science, UK, and is based in the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PU, UK.

It’s a brisk December morning at Spaceport Tucson, America’s premiere (only?) dedicated launch pad for stratospheric balloons, and a small army of technicians in reflective vests is milling around on ...

OAKLAND — Valentine’s Day brings flowers, candy, and declarations of endless love — but it’s also when Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) tends to see an uptick in power outages caused by ...