Daughter polar vortices' could bring snow and ice to parts of northern, central, and eastern United States later this month, ...

To this end, Loon used NOAA-provided wind data for the stratosphere (starting between 10 and 20 km altitude). Each balloon would be directed to a layer where the air current was headed in the ...

A strong polar vortex in the stratosphere has brought subzero temperatures to the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and deep into the South.

On August 16, 1960, Joe Kittinger stood at the edge of his balloon's gondola, 19 and a half miles above the Earth's surface, and leapt out into the near vacuum of the stratosphere. Almost 14 ...

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The stratosphere is the atmospheric layer extending from 10 km to about 50 km in altitude above the Earth's surface. Below this is the troposphere, which is in contact with the oceans and ...

NAGOYA—A balloon launched by high school students soared into the stratosphere and captured our blue, round planet on cameras from an altitude of about 28 kilometers. Members of the astronomy ...

Space Perspective, a Richard Branson-backed startup that wants to take tourists to the stratosphere in a balloon, furloughed ...

Though Taylor Swift left the 67th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles empty-handed last night (after being nominated for six awards), her all-red monochromatic look of the evening left us absolutely ...

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