The truth may be out there, but it isn't in a jungle in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Footage of the balloon was shared to Twitter, showing a silver-colored object with what appears to be solar ...

While Facebook has its New Product Experimentation lab, Google has Google X where it plays around and presents moonshot projects that may (or may not) soar. Think self-driving division Waymo, ...

Only Google could think that the way to improve the flight of giant, helium-filled balloons is by coming up with better algorithms. And to be fair to the Mountain View-based search leviathan, it seems ...

When Google announced “Project Loon” in 2013, a running joke behind the project was that no one thought a network of flying Internet balloons was a feasible idea. Eight years later, Google has decided ...

HARRAH, Wash. - Almost a week after one of Google's high-tech Loon balloons crashed in powerlines along Harrah Road in the Lower Yakima Valley, the technology giant acknowledged the incident Tuesday.

Google parent Alphabet has announced that it is letting the air out of its internet-beaming balloon project — the latest of the tech giant’s “moonshot” programs to get scrapped. Loon, which used ...

Alphabet’s high-flying Loon subsidiary is laying claim to a new flight duration record for its internet-beaming stratospheric balloons. The company said it has beaten its own record of 223 days, which ...

Google parent Alphabet Inc is shutting down its internet balloon business Loon, which aimed to provide a less expensive alternative to cell towers, saying on Thursday that "the road to commercial ...

The first two Loon balloons have arrived in Kenya’s airspace, a week after the operators were cleared by the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority. The balloons christened HBA092 and HBAL125 are reportedly ...

Alphabet’s Loon has been using algorithmic processes to optimize the flight of its stratospheric balloons for years now — and setting records for time spent aloft as a result. But the company is now ...

The truth may be out there, but it isn’t in a jungle in the Democratic Republic of Congo. What was mistaken for a UFO after it wound up in a dense jungle in the African nation turned out to be an ...