Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. NASA's ...

For the first time ever, a robot has deployed a science instrument onto the surface on Mars. NASA's InSight lander, which touched down on the Red Planet late last month, placed its supersensitive ...

NASA’s InSight lander has deployed its first instrument onto the surface of Mars, completing a major mission milestone. New images from the lander show the seismometer on the ground, its ...

PARIS — The French space agency, CNES, said Dec. 11 its board of directors has approved a $42 million investment to provide a seismometer for NASA’s InSight probe, to be launched to the surface of ...

NASA announced Wednesday that it will attempt to launch its InSight mission to Mars in 2018, two years after its original launch date, after engineers discovered problems with the spacecraft’s ...

Monitoring of volcanic activity is essential for better understanding and prediction of significant and potentially disruptive volcanic events, but the equipment deployed has to be able to survive the ...

If you live far from the regions affected by Hurricane Dorian, you might understandably be unable to comprehend the fear that nucleates and grows within the minds of the people in its path. That’s why ...