Last week, 250 scientists, engineers and experts gathered for an international space conference in Visby, Sweden. The four-day conference focused mainly on European balloon and rocket programs and ...

Nestled in the pristine, frozen wilderness of northern Sweden, 200 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle, lies a remarkable facility that has quietly become a cornerstone of global space research and ...

European student teams are offered the chance to design and build experiments suitable for flight on balloons and sounding rockets to be launched from Esrange Space Center – Europe’s only land based ...

London-based Acme Space has announced plans to test its unique balloon-rocket hybrid launch vehicle in the new year, ahead of commercial operations beginning in 2027. Its long-term plans see it ...

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. In the next KFVS12 Heartland Science Lab, science reporter Jason Lindsey will show you how to have a "blast" with science. Ingredients n ...

Space flight enthusiasts talk confidently about trips to the moon, but so far no rocket, even an unmanned one, has climbed more than 0.25% of the distance—about 600 miles, unofficially credited to the ...

(via SciShow) From hypothetical magnetic levitation trains and space elevators that aren't even attached to the ground, to very real space cannons tested in the 1960s, humans have come up with a lot ...

Kenneth Armstrong wrote in with this report: The Davinci Project, a Canadian team vying for the ANSARI X PRIZE unveiled its Wild Fire rocket yesterday in Toronto. The plan is to have a balloon carry ...