This week, uncover some of the oldest ice on Earth, follow a dinosaur highway, learn how Pluto sealed the capture of its moon Charon with a “kiss,” and more.

Ice cores are climate scientists’ best way of understand Earth’s climate in the recent geologic past, largely because of the ...

An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has ... In their study published in the journal Nature, the team analyzed ice core samples taken from a site near the shelf's edge.

Earth’s ice caps exist due to a rare combination of cooling processes. Without these, Earth would likely remain warm and ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale of rock, ice and water that hints at how life could have formed on Earth.

Fire has been a feature of Earth’s history ... Science Foundation’s Ice Core Facility in Lakewood, Colorado, a suburb of Denver. Scientists can then request samples, which is what Riddell ...

ice core from Antarctica that's nearly as long as 25 soccer fields end-to-end. - PNRA/IPEV A research team has collected what may be among the oldest ice samples on Earth. The team, with members from ...