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 ...

While China has insisted a white orb that floated across the continental United States last week was a wayward weather balloon, officials in Washington, DC, have said the balloon was a spying device ...

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.

Behind the city’s painstaking operation to test balloons and clear streets for Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Handlers for the Beagle Scout Snoopy balloon look to a team leader in the front for ...

The staple of children’s parties, awkward school-auditorium dances, and sporting events has taken on another life. By Mattie Kahn On the brink of 40, Gev Danielian could have gotten a Porsche; he ...