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

Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. 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 ...

But what about sulfur? Nobody seems to think much about poor sulfur, and when they do it tends to be derogatory. Sulfur puts the stink in rotten eggs, threatens us when it spews from the mouths of ...

Sulfur is another element. It contains only sulfur atoms, and nothing else, so it is pure. When we mix two different pure substances together, like this, it’s a mixture. This is now a mixture of ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Sulfur in the universe, previously thought to be missing, may be trapped in ammonium hydrosulfide salt on cosmic dust and pebbles. Laboratory experiments under ...