Airbus completed a test flight of a glider set to eventually travel to the edge of space, in a pioneering step into the stratosphere. The Perlan 2's flight, from an airstrip in the western US state of ...

As soon as August, a giant silver bullet will cut its way through the dry air of the southwestern US and cross the Pacific to ...

China recently conducted its first test flight of an indigenously made stratosphere airship which is capable of long flights in the stratosphere, state-media reported. The airship was given the name ...

The high-altitude Perlan 2 glider may soon be carrying a Thales-made satellite communications system that will broadcast live in-flight video from the sailplane while cruising earth’s stratosphere.

The 270-ft.-long airship uses batteries and solar panels for powered flight. Credit: Sceye Sceye’s high-altitude airship completed a more than 24-hr. flight in the stratosphere after launching on Aug.

Some may remember the Project Loon balloons from years past. It's been a while since we've talked about the project, and recently a Loon balloon set a new flight duration record, spending 312 days in ...

A solar-powered aircraft, developed and designed in Hampshire, has successfully completed its first high-altitude flight into the stratosphere. The unmanned Phasa-35 has the wingspan of an airliner ...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- An experimental glider that could eventually reach the edge of space without the power of an engine had a successful first test flight over Oregon this week, winning applause on ...

The cost of sending a scientific experiment to the stratosphere aboard a balloon just went down. Arizona-based World View Enterprises announced today (Sept. 8) that it's introducing a cost-sharing ...