NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program has reached new heights, both literally and figuratively, with four successful ...
The mission — known as Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations, or PUEO — lifted off Dec. 20, 2025, from NASA’s launch ...
An enormous iceberg that split off from the Antarctic ice sheet decades ago has turned an alarmingly bright shade of vivid ...
NASA has successfully concluded its scientific balloon campaign in Antarctica, aimed at studying cosmic particles and ...
High above Antarctica, where the air is thin and the Sun circles the horizon for weeks, a fleet of giant NASA balloons has quietly delivered one of the most intriguing hints yet in the search for dark ...
A has been around since the Chernobyl explosion and Space Shuttle Challenger accident...but perhaps not for much longer.
Antarctica’s iceberg A‑23A displays brilliant blue meltwater pools on its surface. NASA satellites reveal its slow breakup, ...
PUEO is designed to study tiny particles called neutrinos that travel through space at extremely high energies. When these ...
A, is now in its final moments as meltwater turns the disintegrating hunk blue and it appproaches summer waters.
NASA completed its Antarctic balloon campaign using high-altitude balloons to study cosmic rays, anti-matter and high-energy ...
Iceberg A-23A has had a long and arduous journey. It first broke off from Antarctica’s Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986. Afterwards ...