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 ...

Taylor Swift closed out her record-breaking concert at Seattle’s Lumen Field last weekend with her twinkly pop hit “Karma.” Little did she know, when she delivered the bridge “Karma is the thunder, ...

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 ...

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 ...

To ensure safety of the proposed Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train, the National High Speed Rail Corporation Ltd (NHSRCL) will install 28 seismometers along the route and in the earthquake-prone Koyna, ...

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 ...

State-of-the-art seismological techniques applied to Apollo-era data suggest our moon has a core similar to Earth’s. Uncovering details about the lunar core is critical for developing accurate models ...