A rock on Mars spilled a surprising yellow treasure after Curiosity accidentally cracked through its unremarkable exterior.

NASA’s Curiosity Rover has made an unexpected discovery that one scientist likened to finding an “oasis in the desert.” On May 30, Curiosity traversed the Gediz Vallis channel and drove over a rock ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered an abundance of pure sulfur on Mars after it recently drove over a rock and cracked it open, stunning scientists. The six-wheeled rover has spotted sulfur on Mars ...

Earlier this year, the Curiosity Rover accidentally rolled over a rock on Mars. As it cracked open, it revealed yellow crystals of pure sulfur. NASA says it's the strangest find of the entire ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover uncovered yellow elemental sulfur in a Martian rock, challenging geological assumptions and raising questions about the planet’s chemical history.

A discovery is shared by the older Curiosity rover NASA, claiming that pure sulfur crystals have manifested themselves on Mars, a first for the space agency and the planet. This specific area is ...

More life-related signs have emerged from Mars. This time, it has come through an unintentional clash between the Curiosity Rover and a Martian rock in the Gediz Vallis Channel, as reported by Science ...

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NASA scientists say pure sulfur has been found on Mars for the first time after the Curiosity rover inadvertently uncovered a cluster of yellow crystals when it drove over a rock. And it looks like ...

Did life ever exist on Mars, and if so, how did it get there? This is the goal of NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has traversed Gale Crater on Mars since 2012. But a recent finding by the car-sized ...

Yellow sulfur crystals captured by a camera onboard the Curiosity Rover. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover ran over a rock, which cracked open to reveal pure sulfur crystals.

Analyses of 3.5-billion-year-old rocks from Australia indicate that some of the microorganisms living when those rocks formed were able to derive energy from sulfur, the first time such a metabolic ...