Almost all of Earth’s gold is hundreds of feet below the surface. But some of it is oozing from the core into the mantle.

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

This week, see how gold is leaking from the planet’s core, watch sharks sharing a communal meal, unearth Egyptian tombs, and ...

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

A study reveals that gold and precious metals from Earth's core may be seeping into the mantle and reaching the surface ...

As meteorites bombarded one another in Earth’s early history, a reservoir of these precious metals developed when the core formed about 4.5 billion years ago.But this study suggests that at ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...