Researchers at Göttingen University find gold and ruthenium in Hawaiian volcanic rocks, suggesting core materials are reaching the Earth's surface.

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 ...

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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 ...

“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.

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

The presence of water-ice in the debris disk around a young star could have helped facilitate the growth and development of ...

Astronomers searching for massive black holes shredding stars found one in an unusual place -- 2,600 light years from the core of a galaxy. The roque black hole may be from an earlier merger with ...

Seismic imaging has exposed two massive zones hidden deep in Earth’s mantle. These giant blobs, known as large low-velocity ...