Researchers have found evidence that Earth's core is leaking gold and other precious metals, according to a new study. The vast majority (99.9%) of Earth's gold and other precious metals are ...

Unlike the core, the mantle is mostly solid, and makes up most of the planet (84 percent of the Earth’s volume to be exact). Comparatively, the mantle also has less of a platinum-group-metal ...

While ¹⁰⁰Ru does exist in Earth’s mantle, it’s slightly more abundant inside of the core —alongside 99.999 percent of the planet’s gold and other precious metals.

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 ...

In a discovery that sounds straight out of a sci-fi thriller, scientists from Göttingen University in Germany have found traces of precious metals, including gold, leaking from Earth’s core ...

UNDATED (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - A groundbreaking study by the University of Göttingen in Germany, published in the journal Nature, suggests that Earth's core is leaking gold and other precious ...

Earth’s core formed over 4 billion years ago and contains more than 99.999% of the planet’s gold supply. But as Nature reported, previous studies indicated that some volcanic rocks consisted ...

Beneath Earth s surface, nearly 3,000 kilometers down, lies a mysterious layer where seismic waves speed up inexplicably. For decades, scientists puzzled over this D' layer. Now ...

Despite its importance, there is still much that scientists do not know about the center of the Earth. A 2024 study, for example, found that the rotation of Earth's core had slowed down.

However it happened, though, it’s certainly worked out well for Earth’s life forms. These are the most baffling unsolved mysteries about the universe.

A groundbreaking study by ETH Zurich reveals that solid rock in Earth's D" layer, located deep within the mantle, can move ...