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.

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, ...

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 ...

The moon causes a second phenomenon that affects Earth’s rotation on a human timescale. Beachgoers know full well that the moon’s gravity causes the seas’ daily high and low tides, and the solid Earth ...

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 ...