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. A ...

The Curiosity rover is at the time of writing the oldest operational piece of technology on the surface of Mars. Having left Earth in 2011 with the goal of seeing whether the Red Planet is habitable, ...

The Mars lander InSight photographed an austere Martian sunrise earlier this week. The probe has called Mars home since 2018 and has taken thousands of images during its time there, while also ...

Get ready for a really cool event Tuesday, February 18. That morning the waning crescent moon will pass directly in front of Mars. For about an hour, depending on where you live, the planet will ...

Venus and Mars appear very close to each other in the pre-dawn sky this week. ROANOKE, Va. – Venus and Mars rise together in the early morning sky this week, appearing very close to one another too.

Scientists have created the soundtrack of the 5,000th Mars sunrise captured by the robotic exploration rover, Opportunity, using data sonification techniques to create a two-minute piece of music.

A rare triangle of planets has been forming in the predawn skies. Look for Mars, Venus and Saturn, separated by just a few degrees, low on the southeastern horizon about an hour before sunrise. On ...

NASA's Mars InSight Lander shared a unique clip of how a sunrise appears on the Red Planet, and it is an unusual sight to see, especially for the Earth dwellers, which makes it a limited event for ...

You can watch three worlds practically hug each other in the night sky Monday and Tuesday (April4-5) if you get up a little early. Cloudy Venus, bright Mars and ringed Saturn will all get together ...

Burdened with a preponderance of surrealist imagery, Jessica Habie’s Mars at Sunrise merely concerns a painter, but it feels as if it were made by one. Using its narrative as a launching pad for ...