An international research team has successfully drilled and retrieved a 9,186-foot-long (2,800-meter-long) ice core from Antarctica that dates back 1.2 million years.

Evidence from a 2,000-foot-long ice core reveals that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet shrank suddenly and dramatically around 8,000 years ago, according to new research — providing an alarming ...

Between the ice and the soil, there is an area containing sediment and microorganisms, viruses, bacteria, that can tell us a lot about how life developed in those faraway times. John Yang: ...

Deep beneath the icy expanse of Antarctica lies a 9,186-foot-long ice core, a time capsule from 1.2 million years ago, holding mysteries of our planet's past.

Scientists in Antarctica successfully drilled thousands of feet beneath the surface and excavated an unprecedented ice core that reveals at least 1.2 million years of Earth's history.

Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery in Antarctica, uncovering a 1.2-million-year-old ice core. This ancient ice holds valuable data on past climate conditions, which could help us ...

At 1.2-million-years-old, a newly uncovered Antarctic ice core represents the oldest known ice on the planet. The 1.7 mile-long ice core was recovered from over 9,000 feet (2,800 meters) deep ...

Osterberg said ice core samples showed ice ages 1 million years ago occurred every 40,000 years. Then about 800,000 years ago, ice ages jumped to occur every 100,000 years.

Scientists working in Antarctica have drilled the oldest ice core ever found. Dating back an estimated 2.7 million years, this ice sample is more than 1.5 million years older than any other ...