Our next story takes us to the ice of Antarctica, where NASA scientists are launching gigantic balloons that will rise up way into the stratosphere, to near space. Some of these balloons are so big ...

Student volunteers prepare two balloons for a morning launch in Cumberland, Md., as part of a nationwide project to study the April 8 eclipse. (Meredith Rizzo for NPR) Student volunteers prepare a ...

NASA has completed a series of scientific balloon flights over Antarctica during a campaign that began in early December.

👉 Watch the video of Sarah’s school science experiment at Sun Valley Elementary here! Hello parents, teachers and students! If you’re looking for fun way to explore meteorology with your elementary ...

Lauren Riggs stood outside Franklin Elementary School and looked up at a second-story window, eagerly awaiting her big moment. With a crowd gathered around the front steps, her handmade apparatus was ...

Growing up, we all had to do all kinds of science projects in school. For Baby Boomers, here are several classic science projects that just about everyone had to do at least once.

CUMBERLAND, Md. — It's a chilly March morning, and Mary Bowden is standing in the parking lot of a local community college. Bowden is a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Maryland ...