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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Curiosity rover has made its most unusual find to date on Mars: rocks made of pure sulfur. And it all began when the 1-ton rover happened to drive over a rock and crack it open, revealing ...

The Curiosity rover made an accidental discovery on Mars – and uncovered a mineral never before found in its pure form on the Red Planet. As the rover rolled over the planet's rocky surface on May 30, ...

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 ...

NASA announced this week that rocks made of pure sulfur have been discovered on the Red Planet. The yellow sulfur crystals in a pure form have never been seen before on Mars. Earlier findings have ...

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.

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 ...