Far, far beyond the orbits of the planets lie the hazy outlines of the magnetic bubble in space that we call home.



This is the heliosphere, the vast bubble that is generated by the Sun’s magnetic field and...

Debora Fairbrother - Chief of the NASA Balloon Program Office at Wallops Island



The Women@NASA project is the perfect opportunity to celebrate women from across the agency who contribute to NASA’s mission in many...

Watch this one in HD! The slow mo guys are well aware that water balloons are always good in slow motion. In this video, Gav and crew try (and fail many times) to pop a 6ft giant red balloon.

Slow motion is between 2500fps and...

This video is a how-to companion video for the Guinness World Records 2019 edition Do Try This At Home section. Viewers will learn how to make a parrot using balloons.

In this video, the teacher explains how to graph a linear relationship by identifying the rate of change and the initial value. The concept is illustrated through examples and the slope-intercept form of the equation is introduced. The...

This tutorial demonstrates how to create a realistic 3D blimp model using Blender. He covers topics such as deleting default objects, creating a UV sphere, adjusting the number of segments, scaling and shaping the model, adding textures...

Learn about Avogadro's number and the ideal gas law.

Ever wonder what it's like to be part of a NASA team? Well, three student interns have been given the opportunity of a lifetime. They were asked to create a major component for the Balloon Experimental Twin Telescope for Infrared...

For 12 days in January 2016, a football-field-sized balloon with a telescope hanging beneath it floated 24 miles above the Antarctic continent, riding the spiraling polar vortex. On Jan. 31, 2016, scientists sent the...

A fun video that teaches toddlers and preschoolers how to draw and colour a balloon.

Romi's friend has a balloon. He wants one too. But where's the balloon seller? Watch this fun video to find out.

Who didn’t like playing in ball pits when they were a child? Now let’s imagine a room filled with these balls constantly moving around in different directions this is how molecules in a gas move. In this video, we’re going to discover...

Review the numbers by listening to short stories to learn in a fun and easy way

A short and sweet explanation of Supply-Side Economics, better known as Trickle Down Economics. Just enough to squeeze past your exam or your next dinner party conversation.

Make your own laser blaster!

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Jamal learns about inflation on a trip to the funfair. He has lots of questions -What is inflation? What causes inflation? What does inflation mean?

I had a bunch of fun at Maker Faire NYC! I saw a lot of really neat builds, tools, workshops and displays, but the rubber band whip really stood out as something easy and fun anybody can do. Maybe im still a 12 year old at heart but I...

Military Hot Air Balloons were pioneered during the American Civil War for both surveillance and reconnaissance.

Study the numbers by playing with asteroids, planets and rockets. Let's do it!

Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner, 42, plans to jump from a helium balloon nearly 23 miles in the sky. If successful, he would break several world records, including highest-altitude freefall and fastest freefall and become the first...

NASA has begun work on an ambitious new project that will carry a cutting-edge telescope high into the stratosphere on a balloon.<br/>

In 1978, Gunter Wetzel and Peter Strelzyk decided they could no longer live in the communist state of East Germany. Of all the escape attempts made by East German citizens during the Cold War, the Wetzel and Strelzyk families have one...

The retro helium balloon will be all the rage in 2013 when Spanish company Zero 2 Infinity launches its "Bloon" tourism flights. The Bloon will use a helium balloon to carry four passengers and two crew to altitudes of 22 miles, high...