The partial vertebra appeared inside a 2.5-inch-diameter column of rock that researchers drilled, earning the title of the ...

A dinosaur fossil has been found in an unlikely place, a hole drilled under the parking lot of a Colorado museum where ...

NASA's Perseverance rover is digging deeper into Mars' geologic past as it begins grinding into rock surfaces to expose ...

Microbes have been discovered alive inside 2-billion-year-old rock, offering a rare window into Earth’s deep past. Found in ...

Pockets of microbes have been found living within a sealed fracture in 2-billion-year-old rock. The rock was excavated from ...

Scientists using an ocean drilling vessel have dug the deepest hole ever in rock from Earth's mantle - penetrating 4,160 feet (1,268 meters) below the Atlantic seabed - and obtained a large sample ...

Now, scientists have found a stunning sample of microbes that appear to be two billion years old. ... Upon obtaining a 30-centimeter-long rock core sample located 15 meters below ground, ...

Microbes have been found alive and well inside ancient rock, offering an extraordinary glimpse into Earth's distant past. Researchers studying a 2-billion-year-old rock sample from the Bushveld ...

A post on Perseverance’s X account described the sample — named Silver Mountain by NASA — as “unlike anything we’ve seen before,” adding that it’s sealed the rock core in a sample ...

And that has meant drilling down thousands of feet and extracting a “core” — a more than 100-foot rock sample that they can analyze in the lab.

The rover took three separate rock core samples from the area; two are sedimentary, while the other is silica-cemented carbonate. “It’s not just interesting for life,” Horgan explains.

The core sample is thought to be representative of the mantle rock beneath the Lost City vents. “One suggestion for the origin of life on earth is that it could have happened in an environment ...