Earth's core is rich with gold, and it's leaking out through the mantle and into the crust, new research has found. A new ...

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

Beneath our feet lie two massive structures scientists can’t fully explain. New research links them to something far more ancient—and violent—than once believed.

There should be rocks showing both impact shock and high magnetism located near the lunar South Pole on the far side of the ...

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

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 ...

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

Astronomers may have discovered a rare type of binary star system, where one star used to orbit inside its partner.

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

To better understand Jupiter’s primordial stages, researchers turned to the tiniest of the planet’s 92 known moons. Almathea ...

A recently discovered asteroid, named "2024 YR4", could cross Earth's trajectory in December 2032. With an estimated impact probability of 1.2%, this celestial body measuring 40 to 100 meters (130 to ...