Emmy Award-winning journalist Kris Van Cleave is the senior transportation correspondent for CBS News based in Phoenix, Arizona, where he also serves as a national correspondent reporting for all CBS ...

Watch as these adorable pups try to figure out what this strange floating ball is — their reactions are hilarious. Speaker Johnson says GOP working on Republican health care plan amid shutdown What ...

There is an astonishing reminder early on in director John Dower’s spirited documentary, “The Balloonists,” a crowd-pleaser for Jules Verne fans and adventure lovers alike. There are only 66 short ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) — New special shape balloons for the 2025 Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta have been announced on Tuesday morning. There’s a total of 11 new shapes making their ...

EXCLUSIVE: In 1991 a Swiss explorer and a British flying instructor attempted to do what had never been accomplished before: fly around the world nonstop in a balloon. They not only faced enormous ...

The quest for the cosmic ray was a four-ring circus last week. The main purpose of Belgian Professor Auguste Piccard’s stratosphere balloon flight (see p. 32) was to record the effect of cosmic rays ...

One of the ways that federal scientists obtain vital weather data is being curtailed by budget cuts from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. At least 11 National Weather Service ...

March 21 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1413, Henry V was crowned king of England. In 1617, Pocahontas died in England at about age 22. Three years earlier, she converted to Christianity, took ...

“What a mess!” cried irrepressible Jeannette Piccard. “I wanted to land on the White House lawn.” Mrs. Piccard popped her head out of the gondola of the stratosphere balloon in which she and her ...