NASA announced Monday that it has captured, sealed, and stored the first core sample ever drilled on another planet. The space agency’s Perseverance rover completed the collection of the first sample ...

An international research team has successfully drilled and retrieved a 9,186-foot-long (2,800-meter-long) ice core from Antarctica that dates back 1.2 million years. The sample extended so deep that ...

To understand the mantle—the largest layer of Earth’s rocky body—scientists drill deep cores out of the Earth. Scientists drilled the deepest core yet and recovered serpentinized peridotite that forms ...

In the summer of 2025, an international research team processes over 2,800 metres of ice in the Alfred Wegener Institute's ice laboratory. It comes from the oldest continuous ice core ever drilled on ...

Antarctica's next deep ice core, drilling down to ice from 130,000 years ago, will be carried out by a multi-institutional U.S. team at Hercules Dome, a location hundreds of miles from today's ...

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