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

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 ...

Our rocky satellite's real age is concealed by a "remelting" event that caused its surface to liquify, distorting the story ...

The discovery opens up new ways of understanding whether Mars was ever habitable in its ... we can calculate the age of crystal formation.” The zircon in Black Beauty was unaltered by its ...

We studied the mineral zircon in a meteorite from Mars and found evidence that water was present when the zircon crystal formed 4.45 billion years ago. Our results, published in the journal ...

Nasa's Mars rover has made its "most unexpected ... revealing yellow-ish green crystals", said CNN. Nasa used the robot's instruments to analyse the rock, receiving data that indicated it was ...

During this stage of its 12-year mission on Mars, the rover made some important discoveries, including accidentally unveiling crystals of pure sulfur and finding "wavey" rocks left behind by an ...

Mars fans on Earth can still break out into ... Meanwhile, the Curiosity rover turned up a surprising find of pure sulfur crystals. Both rovers are going strong, so we can look forward to ...