As it drifts upward, the pibal shows balloonists where the air currents are flowing.Credit...Ruth Fremson/The New York Times Ms. Secrist, 21, is one of the youngest commercial hot air balloon ...

Missing since September, the bodies of U.S. hot-air balloonists Richard Abruzzo and Carol Rymer-Davis are found in southern Italy. Video courtesy of Reuters. Trump Says 150 Countries Want to Make ...

The 2021 National Hot Air Balloon Open Championships and Hulunbuir Grassland air show in Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, was held from Friday to Sunday. [Photo by Sun Xuan/For ...

Heading for an expected Saturday-morning landing in Baja, Mexico, two balloonists crossing the Pacific have made history by traveling farther and longer in a gas balloon than anyone else.

Two balloonists have unofficially left a distance record in their wake as they head east over the Pacific Ocean. They lifted off from Japan, and now they're getting ready for a landing on Saturday ...

Among their discoveries? Insect migration and the stratosphere. Falling Upwards chronicles the balloonists who took science into the stratosphere. Imagine a time, before space shuttles ...

Anyone who’s been to hot air balloon festivals likely knows how ideal the weather conditions need to be for launch. When the city of Ceres held its inaugural Skies the Limit hot-air balloon ...

After crossing the finish line, the balloonists then flew on to a landing in Egypt Sunday. Before reaching Egypt, the balloon flew over Libyan airspace. Libya is a nation that has sometimes barred ...

One by one, balloons rise into the pre-dawn sky, their ascents tracked by several hundred balloonists on the ground, waiting to see which direction the balloons take. The 10 balloons that make up ...

A group of hot air balloonists have been granted permission to host a new festival. The first Snake Meadows Festival is due to be held in a field on the edge of the village of Saltford ...