Earth’s core is apparently a bit leakier than scientists expected. In a new study published in Nature, researchers describe ...

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

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 ...

One of the asteroids will come as close as within 120,000 miles from the Earth, soaring past at over 41,000 miles per hour.

At the very edge of our solar system, beyond the grasp of Neptune and even past the icy sprawl of Pluto’s domain, a new ...

Scientists believe massive blobs 2,900 km below Earth are remnants of Theia, a planet that crashed into early Earth and ...

A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet harmless approach to Earth today (May 21), passing within one-third of the Earth-moon distance.