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

revealing yellow crystals of elemental sulfur: brimstone. Although sulfates are fairly common on Mars, this represents the ...

NASA stitched together a 360° view of the rover's surroundings, which NASA turned into a convenient video with spacey music.

NASA's Curiosity rover says farewell to the funky sulfur stones of the Gediz Vallis channel with an immersive panorama view from Mars.

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

NASA's Curiosity rover is preparing for the next leg of its journey, a months-long trek to a formation called the boxwork, a ...

NASA's Curiosity captured a 360-degree panorama before leaving Gediz Vallis channel, a feature it’s been exploring for the ...

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

A close-up photo taken by the Curiosity rover shows pure yellow sulfur crystals within a rock. NASA’s Curiosity rover ran over a rock on Mars in late May. That’s par for the course on the red ...

After a year of exploring a Martian valley, NASA's Curiosity rover is driving to a new location to explore an unusual ...

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 ...

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 ...