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

Research by environmental experts at China’s State Grid Electric Power Research Institute revealed that using a mixture of ...

Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. 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 ...

At one point, the team steered Curiosity away from more treacherous terrain in favor of smoother paths to prolong the ...

The Curiosity rover, which has been climbing a mountain of layered rock, literally stumbled upon pure sulfur, its wheels crushing the material to expose a bed of yellow crystals. It turns out ...

The sulfur within the rock isn't a sulfate — a salt that contains sulfur — it's pure elemental sulfur. The discovery is fascinating for several reasons. When news of a new, important discovery ...

The harsh terrain of the Martian surface has done an absolute number on NASA's Curiosity rover's wheels, as a new picture ...

Instead of sulfur-based minerals, which have been discovered several times already in the area, the cracked-open rock turned out to be pure, elemental sulfur. "Finding a field of stones made of ...

If you are in need of a lesson on just how much things have changed in the last 60 years, an anecdote from my childhood might ...

Pure Quartz (circled in yellow), meanwhile ... I don’t believe you can find this anywhere else, so good luck. Sulfur – While it is possible to find Sulfur nodes out in the wild, the best ...

Nitrogen might be the king of yield, but if a corn plant is sulfur deficient, it won’t reach its maximum potential. Over the past 10 years, sulfur deficiency has become a significant issue.

See how intense the color of these crystals are. Like, it's precipitating out pure sulfur here. NARRATOR: The particles of sulfur indicate that the air is filled with sulfur dioxide, bubbling out ...