Keisuke Iwaya, left, CEO of a Japanese space development company, Iwaya Giken, and Takayuki Hanasaka, JTB Senior Managing Executive Officer, pose for a photo after unveiling a two-seater cabin and a ...

Chinese surveillance balloon's flight over the US has highlighted the military uses of balloons. During World War II, Japan used balloons to strike the US as US troops advanced across the Pacific.

A Japanese startup is trying to make space more accessible but its design for a stratospheric balloon flight looks more like an amusement park ride. Reading time 3 minutes Balloons are so hot right ...

Right around New Year’s Day, 1945, the Japanese army released an unmanned balloon from the east coast of the main island of Honshu. It was made of 600 pieces of paper glued together, in all likelihood ...

BYRON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Lawrence “Buzz” Baily was 9 years old and headed to a local sledding hill with two friends when they noticed a large balloon descending over a North Dorr farm field near ...

In the waning days of World War II, the Japanese devised balloon bombs that could travel more than 5,000 miles via the jet stream to explode on North American soil. One of these bombs killed six ...

The Japanese balloon bomb offensive on U.S. soil was a closely guarded secret for the latter part of World War II. It marked one of a handful of instances of Japanese attacks on U.S. soil in addition ...

In late January, a mysterious balloon was spotted floating over U.S. waters and later hovered around Montana above missile sites. The balloon, which turned out to be a surveillance balloon from China, ...