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

A first-of-its-kind analysis of Hawaiian volcanic rocks has revealed that the Earth’s core is leaking gold and other precious ...

“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 ...

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

Earth's largest gold reserves are not kept inside Fort Knox, the United States Bullion Depository. In fact, they are hidden ...

Earth's largest gold reserves are not kept inside Fort Knox, the United States Bullion Depository. In fact, they are hidden much deeper in the ground than one would expect. More than 99.999% of ...

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

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 ...