A super pressure balloon with the EUSO-2 payload is prepared for launch from Wānaka, New Zealand, during NASA's campaign in ...

A Pulsar Helium drill site as seen Jan. 13 near Babbitt, Minn. Canada-based Pulsar Helium has discovered extremely high concentrations of helium in tests of underground deposits. Helium is best ...

A birthday celebration in Hanoi turned tragic when a woman suffered facial burns after a hydrogen balloon exploded in her hands. The balloons caught fire from a birthday cake candle, causing a sudden ...

Six-year-old Samuel's helium balloon from Ellmau in Tyrol flew all the way to Semriach in Styria. Farmer Richard Krinner found it last fall and contacted the family. Together with his friend ...

The discovery that inert helium can form bonds with iron may reshape our understanding of Earth’s history. Researchers from ...

Researchers from Japan and Taiwan reveal for the first time that helium, usually considered chemically inert, can bond with iron under high pressures. They used a laser-heated diamond anvil cell to ...

They lied to authorities, telling them their child was trapped on a silver homemade helium-filled weather balloon hovering some 7,000 feet above Colorado. News cameras carried the balloon’s ...

A balloon equipped with a solar collector is launched into the air, and an electrical cord carries the generated electricity to the ground. The balloon is a hybrid, using a combination of helium and ...

La Crescenta recently celebrated its very own space launch! The playground at Mountain Avenue Elementary School was the launch site.