A giant parachute built for the beleaguered European ExoMars mission has aced a drop test in the Arctic stratosphere.

Felix Baumgartner, who has died in a paramotoring accident aged 56, was a daredevil skydiver, BASE jumper and aerobatic ...

The most complex parachute system to ever deploy on Mars has successfully slowed down an ExoMars mock-up landing platform for ...

We have airplanes and drones in our airspace and satellites in space, but what about the space in between: the stratosphere? There are platforms, such as blimps, balloons and high-altitude long ...

The stratosphere — the layer of Earth's atmosphere between 7.5 and 31 miles up — is shrinking due to greenhouse-gas ... Since 1980, the altitude of the tropopause has been increasing, ...

High-altitude balloon meant to mimic satellites pulls off longest flight yet ... these vehicles are designed to leisurely float to more than 20 miles up in the stratosphere — and then stay there.

Designed for the stratosphere, this high-altitude platform system was made by Sceye to do work commonly performed by drones and satellites like Earth observation and providing internet access to ...

Felix Baumgartner has died following a paragliding accident in Italy, here’s how his remarkable life took him from the ...

It may sound like the plot of an old James Bond movie, but an idea to "dehydrate the stratosphere" to slow climate change is real. In a study released Wednesday in Science Advances, researchers ...