In 1927, three years after the parade launched, Felix the Cat debuted as its first big balloon. Felix was a cartoon cat that ...

Things are looking up for Minnesota's nascent helium industry, because miners keep going down to find more of it.

When Macy’s first introduced a helium-filled character balloon into the Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1927, people watching from the sidewalks of New York didn’t quite know what they were looking at.

Pathfinder 1 looks like a blimp, but much bigger. It's part of a wave of interest in "lighter-than-air" or LTA aircraft.

CNN floats down memory lane with some of the iconic balloons, and how the New York landscape has changed, alongside the ...

Seasonal parades across the city feature floats, marching groups, decorated boats for Christmas and more. Here is when the ...

Long before rockets and satellites reached space, the Crab Nebula stood out as a steady beacon of high-energy light. At its ...

Every year, tens of millions of people tune in to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to kick off their holidays, but few know ...

The Quad City Arts Festival of Trees, where holiday magic comes to life each year in downtown Davenport, will feature more ...

The song wasn’t chosen to be the debut’s lead single. That honour instead went to the brisk Nur geträumt. Released ahead of ...

Spokane has wound its way through the stratosphere into the national spotlight again. Quite literally. The National Transportation Safety Board announced Thursday that a weather balloon launched by a ...