The flying saucers of science fiction movies might be the shape of things to come for future Mars missions that are expected to involve larger payloads that today's landing vehicles are not equipped ...

NASA launched four flying saucer-shaped spacecraft into orbit on Thursday. The space agency says the UFO lookalikes are new tech that might "expand access to space." Called DiskSat, the plate-shaped ...

NASA broadcast a spin test of its near-space-bound “rocket-powered, saucer-shaped” space capsule on Tuesday. That’s right, NASA is sending a flying saucer into space. And it really looks like, well, a ...

NASA’s Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator project, LDSD for short, has earned Popular Science’s award for “Best of What’s New” in the aerospace category. LDSD, if you recall, is NASA’s take on the ...

(AP) NASA is getting ready to launch a “flying saucer” into Earth’s atmosphere to test technology that could be used to land on Mars. For decades, NASA has depended on the same parachute design to ...

NASA is testing a "flying saucer" designed to land on Mars and deliver large payloads to the Red Planet, and the agency has released a spectacular video of a high-altitude test conducted over Hawaii ...

NASA’s search for life beyond Earth is no longer a distant dream but a coordinated campaign that now stretches from Martian rocks to interstellar visitors. Instead of chasing flying saucers, ...

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