More than 70 hot air balloons will fill the skies over Rio Rancho for the Friends and Lovers Rally this Valentine's Day weekend.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – An Albuquerque student will have her design featured on an official pin for the 2026 Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. Luna Perez Carpio, a fifth-grade student at Petroglyph Elementary School in Albuquerque,

Mortifying. The post It Appears That Immigration Officials Caused the El Paso Airport Shutdown When They Panic-Fired a Powerful Laser Weapon at a Children’s Balloon appeared first on Futurism.

The recent airspace closure around El Paso, Texas, was caused by the U.S. Military shooting down a party balloon amid a behind-the-scenes spat with air safety officials, multiple reports say. That contradicts the explanation provided on Tuesday by administration officials,

New details have emerged about a disagreement between the Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Defense that led to the brief airspace closure in El Paso, Texas.The Pentagon had been planning to test high-energy laser technology at Fort Bliss,

University of Chicago researchers have begun examining data collected by a device transported by a NASA balloon that flew over Antarctica for 23 days.

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 Dec.

The Kubicek BB142P balloon was being cold inflated ahead of a scheduled sunrise sightseeing flight about 5am near Beaudesert, Queensland, on October 18, 2025. A sudden wind shift pushed the partially inflated envelope across a field and into two light posts near a shopping centre carpark, the ATSB report said.