Australian scientists have started analysing the first batch of samples from the "Million Year Ice Core" project. The Antarctic ice was extracted from a depth of 150 metres, where tiny bubbles of ...

Scientists collect core samples from the polar ice sheets to learn about our planet’s climatic past. This core, extracted in Greenland in 2019, contains the Vedde ash layer, likely remnants of an ...

Antarctic ice cores hint that changes in the ocean might have played a larger part than have greenhouse gases in key climate shifts of the past three million years. At Allan Hills in Antarctica, the ...

Martian dust may get its red, magnetic look from ice: dust buried over 2,300 feet deep in an Antarctic core grew new iron ...

On August 28, 2026, I visited the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan) and attended the special ...

Dressed in an orange puffer jacket, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Iizuka stepped into a storage freezer to retrieve an ice core he hopes will help experts protect the world's disappearing glaciers. The ...

Ice core samples storing mysteries from bygone eras. Genericprofilename, CC BY-ND Ice cores are cylinders of ice drilled from glaciers and ice sheets. When snow falls it takes with it a record of many ...

Our solar system is currently passing through the Local Interstellar Cloud, a region of highly diluted gas and dust between the stars. On its path, Earth continuously accumulates iron-60, a rare ...