Members of the astronomy club of Asahigaoka Senior High School here flew the high-altitude balloon ... we were struck by how round the Earth really is,” said Yamada. The club started the ...

There’s only one country in the world that lies entirely above 1,000 meters (3,281 feet) in elevation: Lesotho. Known as the "The Kingdom in the Sky,” for obvious reasons, the entire territory ...

It’s much harder to keep track of it and recover it when it falls back to Earth. If you’re trying ... to be a very small solution for high-altitude tracking. As you might have guessed from ...

"There's a lot of companies that are now attempting to create aircraft to put in the stratosphere," Prismatic CEO Bob ...

Mountainous and high-altitude regions are considered to be among the most fragile ecosystems on Earth. From melting glaciers to land erosion, these environments face mounting threats from climate ...