“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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

By analyzing seismic waves from repeating earthquakes that pass through Earth’s core, scientists can track ... The team then discovered that the seismic wave pairs that crossed shallow regions ...

A doughnut-shaped region thousands of kilometers beneath our feet within Earth's liquid core has been discovered, providing new clues about the dynamics of our planet's magnetic field. A doughnut ...

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 inner core was discovered in 1936, and its size (about 20% of Earth’s radius) is one of the best-constrained properties of the deep Earth. We use this information to estimate the core’s ...

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