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. Rolling ...

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. The ...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — The West Coast’s Pacific Wheel, located on the Santa Monica Pier, flashed its 174,000 LED lights Saturday as a drumroll for multi-platinum musical group Blink-182. The rock band ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover snapped a view of one of its rear wheels with a rock inside it on May 27. It can get lonely on Mars. You’re a rover, traveling around the Jezero Crater. Your best friend ...

Life for Perseverance, the plucky rover that is currently roaming the Red Planet some 132 million miles away from Earth, is quite lonely. From the desolate, dusty landscape of Jezero Crater to the ...

Mars is probably a pretty lonely place. The red planet is littered with rusty red rocks and, as far as we know, devoid of any kind of life. But even so, rovers still roam the surface of the world on ...