Scientists have discovered that Earth's core is leaking gold and other precious metals to the surface, challenging long-held ...

“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 ...

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

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

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

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.

"This discovery has major implications for how ... sinking through the global magma ocean into the Earth's core. "I realised there might be a connection between early core formation, high ...