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. Mars is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Designated Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034, and nicknamed "Black Beauty," this Martian meteorite weighs approximately 11 ounces (320 ...

Black Beauty has an origin story. The meteorite NWA 7034, weighing about the same as a can of soda, was discovered in the Sahara Desert in 2011. But its true home was Mars. To fill out Black Beauty’s ...

One of the most well known meteorites of Mars contains water in an amount of 0.6 percent a tiny amount, but it can be imagined as a sliver of a fingernail, yet it is one great sliver that can alter ...

Mars may seem like a dry, desolate place, but the red planet transforms into an otherworldly wonderland in winter, according to a new video shared by NASA. It's late winter in Mars' Northern ...