Design and build a device that can take a core sample from a potato "asteroid." Design and build a device that can take a core sample from a potato "asteroid." Design Squad is available to stream on ...

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 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 ...

There may be hidden layers to Earth’s core dictated by chemical composition. In A Nutshell Lab experiments suggest Earth’s ...

IN order to obtain long cores from the ocean floor two fundamental difficulties have to be overcome: first, the problem of imparting to the coring tube sufficient energy to embed itself in the ...

Five months after landing on Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover is gearing up to collect its first core sample next month, mission managers said Wednesday. It will drill out a lipstick-size bit of rock ...