If decades of popular culture, eye-witness reports, and conspiracies are to be believed, most extraterrestrial whips are flying saucers. There is a dome on top and some landing gear below.

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.

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.

Science Space NASA NASA’s ‘Flying Saucer’ Will Test Supersonic Landing From The Edge Of Space The LDSD uses a huge parachute and a surface-wide balloon as supersonic brakes By Loren Grush ...

NASA's saucer-shaped Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator test vehicle is lifted aboard Kahana recovery ship after its June 28, 2014 test flight over the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range.

“Excessive grinding” during maintenance led to a metal pin to crack and eventually break causing the left landing gear to collapse on an Alaska Airlines flight in 2023, the National ...

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 ...

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 Simply sighting flying saucers is out of date—the big spin now is to spot them landing and to hobnob with ...

New entry, descent and landing tech will be needed to get super-heavy payloads — habitat modules for a future research base, for instance — safely down on Mars, NASA officials have stressed.

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, and giving positive early signs ...

Trash Gobbling Robots Cleaning Lake Tahoe and Beyond! Science NASA flying saucer crash photo has a real history behind it Did a flying saucer really crash-land in the Utah desert? Sort of.

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 ...