Before they take the long journey to another planet, humans will have to find the right place to land. New findings from a ...

Mercury doesn't give up its secrets easily. The smallest planet in our solar system is also one of the most extreme—a ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has ... insights into Mars' past when water was abundant. Curiosity's journey, spanning over 352 million miles, recently uncovered pure elemental sulfur, sparking further ...

Related: NASA Mars rover finds 'first compelling detection' of ... and previous analyses found it to be rich in clay minerals, sulfur, and nitrates. But despite many thorough tests, the ...

Tutolo led a new study of rock samples collected by the Curiosity rover ... Mars is much richer in iron—that’s why it is the red planet.” The siderite found in the samples was also pure ...

Tutolo joined the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover mission as a participating ... But only evaporation would lead to highly pure siderite forming in the same geologic layer as the sulfate ...

Curiosity’s instruments showed that this rock contained pure, elemental sulfur. “This has never been found on Mars ... odd finds. Shortly after landing in 2004, the Opportunity rover ...

The latest finds both came last month ... a region about 2,300 miles away, the rover recently discovered the largest organic molecules on Mars to date. Here's more on each rover's find, as ...

The Mars Curiosity rover’s onboard mini-lab has helped confirm ... and contains sufficient amounts of sulfur to help preserve organic molecules. Cumberland also features nitrates crucial to ...

The NASA Curiosity rover has discovered the largest organic compounds ever found on Mars, suggesting that the ... There are also signs of sulfur which helps to preserve organic molecules and ...

Last year, the Curiosity rover basically fell into a discovery of sulfur on Mars. "Finding a field of stones made of pure sulfur is like finding an oasis in the desert," said Ashwin Vasavada ...