ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Soon, hundreds of hot air balloons will fill the Albuquerque sky as part of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, but what goes into making a balloon fly? The answer ...

On a clear day in early fall, around sunrise, you might notice hot air balloons flying across the sky, but why do they navigate the skies so early in the day and how does weather play a role in their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arizona is home to multiple hot air balloon festivals every year, and the colorful sky vessels are a popular tourist attraction in ...

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 ...

Explanation When air is cooled it contracts and takes up less space. Therefore, when you placed the balloon outside in a temperature below freezing the air cooled and the balloon became smaller. When ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Science Central joined WANE 15 Saturday Morning to show how matter in the air might inhibit blowing up a balloon. Colton Mishler with Science Central brought two balloons ...

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 ...

Directionally, you never know where a balloon is going to go because the wind controls it. A balloon operator can send a balloon higher or lower, but not steer it in specific directions. So before ...

In Albuquerque, you don’t have to go far to find the answer, as the Anderson Abruzzo International Balloon Museum and the City of Albuquerque have compiled online resources dedicated to explaining how ...