Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Curiosity rover found an unexpected type of mineral in the Gale crater on Mars, and it could change what we know about how ...

Researchers have unveiled a never-before-seen mineral that can act both as a glass and a crystal. It was detected in a 1724 meteorite stored at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France, ...

Scientists at NASA’s Johnson Space Center found something very unexpected in a Martian crater. Using the Curiosity Rover, the scientists detected a mineral called tridymite that, until now, they ...

Scientists have discovered an unexpected mineral in a rock sample at Gale Crater on Mars, a finding that may alter our understanding of how the planet evolved. NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory rover, ...

The mystery of how a concentrated chunk of a rare mineral on Mars came to be located in Gale Crater may be solved. Researchers have published a scenario that could explain the 2016 discovery of ...

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In a collaborative study slated to be published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters this September, planetary scientists from Rice University, NASA’s Johnson Space Center, and the California ...

Shock waves around dusty, young stars might be creating the raw materials for planets, scientists now say. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope detected quartz-like crystals around young stars just ...

NASA's Curiosity rover found an unexpected type of mineral in the Gale crater on Mars, and it could change what we know about how the planet formed. It's a type of silica mineral called tridymite. "I ...