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.

NASA's Perseverance rover has been busy gathering bits of Mars — rock cores the size of chalk sticks, clusters of broken fragments no bigger than pencil erasers, and even grains of dust fine enough to ...

As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA's Perseverance rover has been busy gathering bits of Mars — rock cores the size ... life are present until the samples are back on Earth. But it's not just the ...

The Little Ice Age was a period of global cooling that began during around 1300 CE and lasted until about 1850. Average ...

which aimed to send a spacecraft to collect and return an asteroid sample to Earth. After those samples arrived on Sept. 24, 2023, we got to dive into a tale of rock, ice and water that hints at how ...

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 ...

Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in unprecedented samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid ... Ammonia ice is more stable the farther it is from ...

Moments in human history are etched into the Earth. Now researchers are piecing together evidence of our impact on the planet ...