An analysis of Hawaii’s volcanic rocks revealed Earth’s core is leaking gold and other precious metals, a study found. The ...

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

lending support to the theory that the noble gas is leaking from Earth’s core — and has been for millennia. The research team also detected helium-4 within the rocks. While helium-4 is common ...

Underneath our feet, deep down below the Earth’s crust and its other layers lies the core, or where the planet’s magnetic fields are generated. However, experts now say it’s changing and there might ...

Electric currents created in the fluid metal outer core that produce Earth's magnetic field. Credit: Andrew Z. Colvin / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Yet the magnetic field holds mysteries we ...

Earth’s core is not as dense as pure iron ... Unlike the helium we are most familiar with—also known as Helium-4 (4 He)—primordial helium, or helium-3 (3 He), does not originate on Earth.

Earth's inner core rotates in the same direction as the ... which face far less adversity — can reach a ripe old age of 4 billion, according to Earth Observatory of Singapore.

“The core-mantle boundary is one of the more ... surface material through volcanic eruptions? Even though Earth has been around 4.5 billion years, and geology is not a new field, our understandi ...

By Kenneth Chang The inner core of the Earth appears to hold an innermost secret ... That is a fraction of the planet’s 4.5-billion-year history, and the structure of the solid core appears ...

The inner core of Earth may have changed shape in the past 20 years, according to a group of scientists. The inner core is usually thought to be shaped like a ball, but its edges may actually have ...