Nanako Ogawa, a paleoenvironmental scientist, calls the drilled core samples "tape recorders" that reveal how the earth's environment has changed over the last 4.6 billion years.

So far, the researchers have drilled 500 meters (a third of a mile) into the ice. Their goal is to reach 700 meters (0.4 miles) by the end of the current drilling season, and hit 1,500 meters (0.9 ...

A 12,000-year-old Alpine ice core reveals Europe once endured massive dust storms and sea salt surges—evidence of a radically ...

Antarctica’s “oldest ice” has reached the next leg of its journey: a laboratory in Cambridge, England. Here, it is to undergo ...

The rover "captured, sealed, and stored the first core sample ever drilled on another planet, in a quest to return samples to Earth," NASA said.

Geologists, scientists, drillers, engineers and students look over a 40-foot core sample drilled from the earth at Glacial Till Winery near Palmyra on Thursday.

I was part of an international team which retrieved a record-breaking 1,268m-long drill core (a long cylindrical sample of rock collected by the drill) of mantle rock from the seabed.

Virginia beachgoers will see a strange sight over the next three weeks as an oil rig-type vessel begins taking seabed core samples for Dominion Virginia Power’s offshore wind farm test project.

Taken from the side of a drilled oil or gas well, a core is then dissected into multiple core plugs, or small cylindrical samples measuring about 1 inch in diameter and 3 inches long. These core ...

Mount Kilimanjaro rises more than 19,300 feet above sea level, and its glaciers are nature’s archives. Scientists from Ohio State University drilled into the ice and pulled out core samples in ...