“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 ...

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

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

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.

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

Researchers from the University of Göttingen discovered traces of precious metals, including ruthenium and gold, rising from ...

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

An odd mine was recently opened in the core of an Asian country, and more than 20,000,000 tons of a rare earth metal was ...

Scientists believe massive blobs 2,900 km below Earth are remnants of Theia, a planet that crashed into early Earth and ...