A rock on Mars spilled a surprising yellow treasure after Curiosity accidentally cracked through its unremarkable exterior. When the rover rolled its 899-kilogram (1,982-pound) body over the rock in ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has rolled into a fresh patch of Martian terrain and cracked open a rock that should not exist there, at least not according to the planet’s standard playbook. Inside, the rover ...

Sometimes, the greatest scientific discoveries happen by complete accident, and an inadvertent move by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover last year may have uncovered one of the red planet's most important ...

In November 2011, NASA launched a space mission to explore the planet Mars through a vehicle known as Curiosity. After a long ...

For decades, scientists have puzzled over why so little sulfur appears in space, even though it is one of the most common elements in the universe and vital to life. A new study suggests that the ...

Anyone paying attention to battery research sees sulfur come up frequently. That’s mostly because sulfur is a great storage material for lithium, and it could lead to lithium batteries with impressive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yellow crystals that were revealed after NASA’s Curiosity happened to drive over a rock and crack it open A rock on Mars spilled a ...