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

Over 99 per cent of the Earth’s deposits of gold and precious metals like Ruthenium reside in the Earth's core. Scientists ...

Breakthrough discovery reveals gold and precious metals are slowly leaking from Earth's core through Hawaiian volcanoes.

Gold is among those metals, as are ruthenium, platinum, and iridium.

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

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Researchers from the Australian National University used seismic waves generated by earthquakes to peer into the Earth's mysterious molten core. By tracing the path of these waves through the ...

In a rare stroke of celestial coincidence, two lumpy asteroids – one that could destroy a city, the other big enough to wipe out the planet – are zooming by Earth, close enough to excite ...