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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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.

Scientists believe that Earth’s core is a massive ball of iron. However, a new discovery suggests that the Earth’s core is surrounded by an unexpected ancient structure. A high-resolution map ...

A new study found rare metals, including gold, leaking from Earth’s core to the surface through volcanic activity.