An accident on Mars revealed the surprising contents of an otherwise unremarkable rock. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) A rock on ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered an abundance of pure sulfur on Mars after it recently drove over a rock and cracked it open, stunning scientists. The six-wheeled rover has spotted sulfur on Mars ...

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: a treasure chest, or geologically ...

altered over time through geological processes, the Australian rocks have remained relatively unchanged since their inception 3.47 billion years ago. contains 16 protons and 16 neutrons in its nucleus ...

Volcanic eruptions can be some of the most significant agents for affecting the Earth's climate. Eruptions send ash, sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide, chlorine, and more into the lower and upper ...

Bluish-gray molybdenite, a molybdenium-sulfur mineral, in quartz from Wisconsin. More than 5,000 minerals have been identified on Earth, more than half of which are classified as rare, meaning they’ve ...

An international team of scientists led by microbiologists Marc Mussmann and Alexander Loy from the University of Vienna has discovered a new microbial metabolism: so-called MISO bacteria "breathe" ...

As sulfur cycles through Earth's atmosphere, oceans and land, it undergoes chemical changes that are often coupled to changes in other such elements as carbon and oxygen. Although this affects the ...