“When the first results came in, we realized that we had literally struck gold,” Nils Messling, a geochemist at Göttingen ...

Earth’s core is apparently a bit leakier than scientists expected. In a new study published in Nature, researchers describe ...

Scientists stunned to find Earth’s core leaking gold and other precious metals - Over 99.99 per cent of Earth’s deposits of ...

Earth's largest gold reserves are not kept inside Fort Knox, the United States Bullion Depository. In fact, they are hidden much deeper in the ground than one would expect. More than 99.999% of ...

Earth's largest gold reserves are not kept inside Fort Knox, the United States Bullion Depository. In fact, they are hidden ...

Samples from Hawaii seem to contain material that passed across the boundary between the planet’s core and its mantle, nearly ...

The world’s largest gold reserves—approximately 99.999% of all the gold on Earth—are at an unreachable depth beneath more ...

A new study has found that such heavy metals may have formed through eruptions on a rare type of star called a magnetar.

By analyzing seismic waves from repeating earthquakes that pass through Earth’s core, scientists can track changes in the core over time. Previous research using this method suggested that ...

Earth's inner core is undergoing structural transformation. Located 3,000 miles below the Earth's surface, the inner core is anchored by gravity within the molten liquid outer core. Until now the ...

There are many reasons humans have valued gold throughout the years: it’s stable, malleable, non-toxic, and of course, shiny.

A new study found rare metals, including gold, leaking from Earth’s core to the surface through volcanic activity.