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 ...

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. Get any of our free email newsletters — news headlines, sports, arts & entertainment, state legislature, CFD news, and more.