NASA's Curiosity rover has made a groundbreaking discovery on Mars by uncovering pure sulfur crystals within a broken rock.

Curiosity has just finished the latest leg of its 12-year Mars mission and will now set out to explore miles of web-like ...

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

Sulfur is essential for life, and this is the latest in a string of discoveries that make it plausible that life may have existed on the Red Planet.

The rover's latest discoveries, including pure sulfur stones and sprawling mineral "spiderwebs," unravel new mysteries of ...

Explore the full scene on YouTube and look for highlights like the rover tracks, the distant crater rim and the channel itself: Curiosity made a surprise discovery of pure sulfur crystals at Gediz ...

Twelve years after landing on Mars, Curiosity Rover is investigating peculiar 'boxwork' formations on Mount Sharp. These ...

In its latest achievement, the Curiosity rover has found pure sulfur on Mars ... rock and rolled over it such that it broke apart to produce bright yellow crystals of elemental sulfur. Mars is indeed ...

The Curiosity team was therefore surprised by the stones and the yellow crystals they contained when the rover passed over them. Investigations confirmed the stone was pure sulfur — something no ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover is preparing for the next leg of its journey, a monthslong trek to a formation called the boxwork, a ...

At its most recent site, known as Gediz Vallis, the rover literally stumbled upon pure sulfur, its wheels crushing the material to expose a bed of yellow crystals. It turns out there was a whole ...