After years of work building an exquisitely sensitive instrument, University of Chicago scientists stood and watched as it flew up and out of sight into the fiercely blue Antarctic sky. Launched on ...

On September 28, the Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum size for 2024, covering a total area of roughly 20 million square kilometers. While this was large enough to engulf the entire continent ...

University of Chicago researchers have begun examining data collected by a device transported by a NASA balloon that flew ...

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The second of three missions as part of NASA’s Antarctica Long Duration Balloon Flight Campaign was successfully launched at 8:10 a.m. EDT, Dec. 2. The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) ...

NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program has reached new heights, both literally and figuratively, with four successful long-duration balloon flights over Antarctica, as reported by NASA. From detecting ...

Scientists with NASA are launching enormous balloons, the size of a football stadium, from the Antarctic ice. They're carrying experiments on dark matter and other mysteries. Our next story takes us ...

High above the frozen wilderness of Antarctica, a NASA balloon has picked up signals that challenge our understanding of the cosmos. These radio waves, buried deep in the continent’s ice, appear to ...

In a display of nature's palette, NASA has released satellite imagery capturing colorful icebergs near the Amery Ice Shelf in east Antarctica. The vibrant blues, greens and even yellowish tones in the ...

WASHINGTON — NASA begins a series of flights Oct. 15 to study changes to Antarctica’s sea ice, glaciers and ice sheets. The flights are part of Operation Ice Bridge, a six-year campaign that is the ...

A widespread, record-breaking melting event occurred across the Antarctic throughout December, and now, photos captured by NASA show turquoise colored pools of water appearing along one of the ...

A new NASA experiment will take to the skies on a balloon, scanning the space between the stars of our galaxy and listening for cosmic ingredients to understand how the Milky Way evolved over time.