The Earth Dome stopped at an elementary school in Richardson on Thursday to give students a unique geography lesson. The 19-foot-tall balloon is covered in real satellite images that were stitched ...

Greenpeace USA activists delivered a 16-foot inflatable Earth to the White House today along with nearly half a million petition signatures demanding that President Biden declare a climate emergency.

Today, several leading firms are pushing forward on expandable structures in space, such as the new startup Max Space, which is working on inflatable habitats for Earth orbit, the moon and Mars.

Much like the American frontier, whoever can reach the land first can plant their flag—and define what houses on the moon ...

The Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator technology demonstration, or LOFTID, hitched a November 10 ride to space as a secondary payload along with the Joint Polar Satellite ...

Multiple parenting blogs suggest using an inflatable Earth, tennis ball (or ball of a similar size) and a flashlight to experience an in-home solar eclipse. Follow NASA's interactive map.

In another, they used a flashlight to cast a shadow onto an inflatable Earth ball, mimicking the path of the moon’s shadow during an eclipse.

Still, an inflatable heat shield shares a key characteristic with a bouncy castle: Uninflated, it can be folded and packed tightly. LOFTID fit in a cylinder a bit over four feet wide and one and a ...