Mario and PAC-MAN are among the new balloons featured in the 99th edition of the storied Thanksgiving Day parade in New York ...

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

The event takes place on the streets surrounding the American Museum of Natural History on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Lithuania’s Prime Minister has said it’s “a hybrid attack” – hundreds of weather balloons flying across the border from ...

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

Every November, New York’s streets come alive with gigantic characters that make you stop mid-step. The Macy’s Parade is more ...

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.

A Haldi ceremony turned chaotic when hydrogen balloons exploded during the couple’s entry, leaving the bride and groom with burns.

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 ...

Lithuania has said it will shoot down weather balloons that keep floating over from Belarus. The baltic nation doesn’t have an issue with its neighbour’s weather forecasting – it’s the cigarettes that ...