NASA’s Curiosity rover has made a groundbreaking discovery on Mars by uncovering pure sulfur crystals within a broken rock. This finding is considered a significant scientific breakthrough ...

The Mars rover’s tracks across the rocky terrain are visible at right. More NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Curiosity's instruments confirmed these were pure sulfur, a material typically associated with ...

If NASA’s Curiosity rover could mail a postcard from Mars, its latest would probably read, “Dear Earth—Crazy landscape! Check out these wild sulfur stones. Moving on soon. Wish you were here!” ...

What can sulfur stones and mysterious patterns on Mars teach us about past liquid water life and the potential for ancient life on the Red Planet? This is what NASA’s Curiosity rover hopes to address ...

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 ...

The science team is also trying to answer some big questions about the sprawling field of sulfur stones. Images of the area from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) showed what looked like an ...

Because the sulfur on Earth comes from hot springs and volcanoes, neither of which have been found on Mars, the JPL team has yet to come up with an explanation for the element's existence on the ...

Inside the crushed stone were yellow crystals of sulfur. Because the sulfur on Earth comes from hot springs and volcanoes, neither of which have been found on Mars, the JPL team has yet to come up ...