There is a dome on top and some landing gear below. ... Though mankind has fiddled with saucer-shaped planes and rockets in the past, we’ve never succeeded at making them work.

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter has gone viral after snapping photos on the Red Planet of what looked like a flying saucer — but was actually landing gear from last year’s mission to Mars.

This story was updated at 6:30 p.m. EDT on June 29. New NASA gear that could help humanity set up an outpost on Mars has gotten its first test flight. The space agency launched its Low-Density ...

NASA's "flying saucer" has had a wet but happy landing, with the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) finally taking to the skies after several launch delays,… ...

NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator project completed its second flight test Monday when the saucer-shaped craft splashed down safely off the coast of the Hawaiian island of Kauai. The ...

Update 5:45 p.m. EDT 6/8/15: A collective groan echoed throughout the LDSD mission control as flight controllers watched the flying saucer’s supersonic parachute shred during descent. The ...

The disk was about 18 ft. high, and rested on a pawnshop-type landing gear of three balls. Two 6-ft.-tall men got out of the saucer, and Guimaraes tried small talk in English, French.

FLYING SAUCER FROM MARS (153 pp.)—Cedric Allingham—Brifish Book Centre ($2.75). Simply sighting flying saucers is out of date—the big spin now is to spot them landing and to hobnob ...

The spacecraft include a sample-return capsule that was shaped a bit like a flying saucer. The capsule crash-landed back on Earth in 2004 when its parachutes failed to open. NASA stays busy ...

NASA's saucer-shaped Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator prototype is carried skyward by a high-altitude balloon during a Mars landing technology test flight from Kauai, Hawaii on June 8, 2015.

This story was updated at 6:30 p.m. EDT on June 29. New NASA gear that could help humanity set up an outpost on Mars has gotten its first test flight. The space agency launched its Low-Density ...