“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 ...

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

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

How hot is it? What's it made of? New discoveries are even calling into question whether the core is solid. A new study out this week said that the Earth's inner core is less solid than previously ...

Thanks to this region's critical role, their discovery may also have profound implications for the study of life on Earth and other planets. Earth's outer core has a radius of around 2,160 miles ...

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

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 ...

Deep inside Earth is a solid metal ball that ... shrouded in mystery. This inner core has intrigued researchers since its discovery by Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann in 1936, and how it moves ...

USC scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery about the nature of Earth’s enigmatic inner core, revealing for the first time that this 1,500-mile-wide ball of iron and nickel is changing.

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