Curiosity, NASA's Mars rover, accidentally cracked open a seemingly ordinary rock, revealing an unexpected yellow substance ...

A rock on Mars spilled a surprising yellow treasure after Curiosity accidentally cracked through its unremarkable exterior.

This time, it has come through an unintentional clash between the Curiosity Rover and a Martian rock in the Gediz Vallis ...

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Deep in Chile’s Atacama Desert, scientists studied a green crystal called atacamite—and discovered it can cool itself ...

For over two decades, physicists have been working toward implementing quantum light storage—also known as quantum memory—in ...

Canadians may think they're intimately familiar with ice in all its forms, but there is one kind that most have probably ...

A version of this article appears in the March 7, 1931 issue of Science News.