The European team spent four years drilling at the remote Little Dome C site, located on the Antarctic plateau in the eastern part of the continent at an altitude of nearly 3,200 meters. According to ...

Scientists in the Antarctic have successfully extracted the world's oldest ice—drilling down 1.7 miles for ice samples a million years old.

Ice core analysis from Greenland reveals volcanic upheaval that coincides with the creation of mysterious "sunstones" in ...

Teaming up with climate scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute, Iversen and his colleagues found that ice cores in both ...

Antarctic scientists have extracted what is believed to be the world's oldest ice. The international team successfully ...

“We have a strong indication that the uppermost 2,480 meters contain a climate record that goes back to 1.2 million years in ...

Scientists drilled a 2-mile-deep ice core in Antarctica, allowing them to peer back in time at Earth's climate over 1.2 ...

A team of scientists has uncovered a million-year-old ice core in Antarctica that could unlock critical climate history ...

An ice core was recently drilled out of the Antarctic continent and while it’s impressive in size, its scientific significance cannot be overstated. Experts say it could provide unprecedented climate ...

A colossal ice core sample drilled in Antarctica may contain the oldest, unbroken timeline of Earth's climate, stretching ...

Researchers are studying ancient Antarctic ice to learn more about the past in hopes of understanding the climate of Earth’s ...

This week, uncover some of the oldest ice on Earth, follow a dinosaur highway, learn how Pluto sealed the capture of its moon ...