French fighter jets shot down high-altitude balloons with air-to-air missiles in a recent test. France warned that the battle for near-space is heating up and pointed to China's spy balloon over the ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Colorado is no stranger to strange objects floating or flying across the sky (remember “Balloon Boy” from October 2009?), and many residents wanted answers for a strange balloon seen ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. There has been a fresh wave of balloon sightings across several ...

The view from a Pegasus high-altitude balloon. Credit: Pegasus Aerospace A military technology from the French Revolution is finding new life on the modern AI-powered battlefield. From Russia’s war in ...

The UK could benefit from the collection of military intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance from the stratosphere following the successful trials of new high-altitude balloons flying between 60 ...

Now that hundreds of hours of work by a group of Duke University engineering students has produced the school’s first high-altitude balloon launch and some important atmospheric data, the plan is to ...

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. – On a cloudy winter day at Gray Army Airfield, a series of high-altitude balloons ascended into the stratosphere, marking a significant step forward in building a ...