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 ...

Illinois is home to 40 species of snakes, four of which are venomous. A venomous snake bite is usually not fatal to humans, ...

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

The Mars rover made an incredible discovery on the Red Planet after accidentally splitting a rock. Yellow sulfur crystals ...

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

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

The Mars rover, built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), has slowly scaled Mount Sharp since 2014. This mountain, ...