NASA's Curiosity rover discovered a rare element on Mars after it drove over a rock and cracked it open.

While surveying the site of an ancient channel on Mars, the Curiosity rover ran over a rock and discovered pure sulfur on the red planet for the first time.

Though it looks like the entrance to an alien tomb, mission scientists say it's a natural feature.

The rover will spend months exploring the Gediz Vallis channel, which could contain clues to the history of liquid water on Mars

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Ashwin Vasavada, the head scientist for the Curiosity Mars rover, about the rover's 10 years of exploration.

Craggy sandstone is stopping the rover's ascent of a Martian mountain.

"This is the best evidence of water and waves that we've seen in the entire mission," Ashwin Vasavada, Curiosity's project scientist, said. "We climbed through thousands of feet o…

NASA's Curiosity rover has found wave-rippled rocks -- evidence of an ancient lake -- in an area of the planet expected to be drier, the US space agency said Wednesday."This is the best evidence of water and waves that we've seen in the entire mission," said Ashwin Vasavada, Curiosity's project scie...

12 years on Mars — and NASA's Curiosity rover "has made its most unusual find to date," reports CNN — rocks made of pure sulfur. "And it all began when the 1-ton rover happened to drive over a rock and crack it open, revealing yellowish-green crystals never spotted before on the red pl...

It's not a stairway to heaven — it's a doorway on Mars.

NASA reports in an article for Phys.Org: Scientists were stunned on May 30 when a rock that NASA's Curiosity Mars rover drove over cracked open to reveal something never seen before on the Red Planet: yellow sulfur crystals. Since October 2023, the rover has been exploring a region of Mars rich wit...

NASA's Curiosity rover has found wave-rippled rocks -- evidence of an ancient lake -- in an area of the planet expected to be drier, the US space agency said Wednesday.

NASA's Curiosity rover has found wave-rippled rocks – evidence of an ancient lake – in an area of the planet expected to be drier, the US space agency said Wednesday.

It's the clearest evidence of waves and water the Curiosity rover has ever found.

It's the clearest evidence of waves and water the Curiosity rover has ever found.

NASA's Curiosity rover revealed an 'oasis' of rare elemental sulfur on Mars after accidentally crushing a rock with its tires. The yellow crystals have never been spotted on the Red Planet before.

Is that a mysterious doorway to an underground necropolis captured in a photo of the surface of Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover? Uh, probably not. The grainy, now-viral picture shows what looks like a rectangular opening in the Red Planet's rocky surface that looks like a portal to the unknown. While scientists were quick to debunk ...

NASA scientists say pure sulfur has been found on Mars for the first time after the Curiosity rover inadvertently uncovered a cluster of yellow crystals when...

Is there life on Mars? The planet's ancient water history might have some answers.

The Mars curiosity rover finds evidence of abundant ancient water in a surprising spot.