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

A groundbreaking study reveals that Earth's core isn't as isolated as once thought. Researchers discovered that valuable ...

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

Deep beneath Hawaii’s volcanic islands, a chemical mystery is rising to the surface. Within flows of molten rock, scientists ...

Scientists have discovered that Earth's core is leaking gold and other precious metals into the mantle, eventually reaching ...

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

Our data confirmed that material from the core, including gold and other precious metals, is leaking into the Earth’s mantle above.” It’s the strongest evidence yet that the Earth’s core is leaking ...

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

They used a laser-heated diamond anvil cell to find this, and the discovery suggests there could be huge amounts of helium in the Earth's core. This could challenge long-standing ideas about the ...

The record-breaking mission offers an unprecedented opportunity to study the geology of our planet’s largest layer.