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

Curiosity has just finished the latest leg of its 12-year Mars mission and will now set out to explore miles of web-like ...

As it cracked open, it revealed yellow crystals of pure sulfur. NASA says it's the strangest find of the entire Curiosity project. The little rover has explored the Gale Crater since 2012.

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 Curiosity team was therefore surprised by the stones and the yellow crystals they contained when the rover passed over them. Investigations confirmed the stone was pure sulfur — something no ...

Explore the full scene on YouTube and look for highlights like the rover tracks, the distant crater rim and the channel itself: Curiosity made a surprise discovery of pure sulfur crystals at Gediz ...

Analysis showed these crystals were pure sulfur, something no other mission has found on Mars. Geologists associate these kinds of deposits with water. You can see the expanse of white sulfur ...

In its latest achievement, the Curiosity rover has found pure sulfur on Mars ... rock and rolled over it such that it broke apart to produce bright yellow crystals of elemental sulfur. Mars is indeed ...

At its most recent site, known as Gediz Vallis, the rover literally stumbled upon pure sulfur, its wheels crushing the material to expose a bed of yellow crystals. It turns out there was a whole ...