When scientists want to study the past and physical composition of something, be it ancient Antarctic ice or a geological formation, drilling out a cylindrical core sample is a standard technique. But ...

Mike Heilig, who installs tile for a living, spends an estimated 1,000 hours on each table. "They're one of a kind," said Heilig, who found the rocks, in the form of core samples, at old abandoned ...

NASA is celebrating confirmation via data it received from its Perseverance Rover that indicates it has completed the collection of its first rock core sample on Mars. Data was received from the rover ...

An international team of scientists have drilled nearly two miles down into the Antarctic bedrock, extracting an ice core sample that’s estimated to be at least 1.2 million years old, they announced ...

A way of measuring well conditions downhole by studying samples of reservoir rocks, core analysis gives the most accurate insight into the porosity and permeability, among other characteristics, of ...

NASA has released an image showing that the space agency's Perseverance Mars rover has successfully retrieved its first rock drill sample for return to Earth. Taken by the Mastcam-Z camera on ...