Strong new evidence suggests that primordial material from the planet’s center is somehow making its way out. Continent-size ...

Chipmatic is a factory building game where you control a mining robot on a mission to reach Earth’s core. Explore deep ...

Earth is more than just a spinning sphere in space,it's a living, breathing marvel of geology, biology, and cosmic history.

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.

On August 5, 2025, Earth is expected to experience a slightly shorter day, approximately 1.34 milliseconds less than 24 hours ...

Like a dragon, Earth is hoarding most of its gold: research suggests more than 99 percent is in its metallic core – enough to cover all of Earth's land in gold 50 centimeters (20 inches) thick.

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 ...

Scientists have successfully extracted the world's oldest ice core at Little Dome C in East Antarctica. Extracted during the fourth drilling campaign of the EU-funded, Beyond EPICA-Oldest Ice project, ...

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.

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 ...

A new study published in July 2025 tackles one of science's most profound mysteries—how did life first emerge from nonliving ...

Earth is fortunate in having a magnetic field: it protects the planet and its life from harmful cosmic radiation. Other ...