Space Perspective tickets cost $125,000 per person for a six-hour trip to space, with the luxury of food, drinks, and Wi-Fi.

Temperatures are achingly cold in the stratosphere over the Arctic, which can only mean one thing: it's perfect conditions ...

A strong polar vortex in the stratosphere has brought subzero temperatures to the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and deep into the ...

To this end, Loon used NOAA-provided wind data for the stratosphere (starting between 10 and 20 km altitude). Each balloon would be directed to a layer where the air current was headed in the ...

The dataset covers the period between September 2004 and December 2023 and will enable researchers to explore and model some ...

Their goal is twofold: Get a baseline measurement of what the earth’s stratosphere looks like, and see how natural events such as volcanic eruptions and wildfires can change it. With that data ...

The ARK Space Exploration & Innovation ETF offers diversified exposure to the space sector, despite its high expense ratio.

NAGOYA—A balloon launched by high school students soared into the stratosphere and captured our blue, round planet on cameras from an altitude of about 28 kilometers. Members of the astronomy ...

On August 16, 1960, Joe Kittinger stood at the edge of his balloon's gondola, 19 and a half miles above the Earth's surface, and leapt out into the near vacuum of the stratosphere. Almost 14 ...

Space Perspective, a Richard Branson-backed startup that wants to take tourists to the stratosphere in a balloon, furloughed ...

The majority of our weather occurs here. The layer of the atmosphere that lies between 6 and 31 miles above the surface is known as the stratosphere. The polar vortex is within the stratosphere.