Why Earth’s core burns hotter than the Sun’s surface without ever melting

Why Does It Get Hotter the Deeper You Go? Miners have known this for ages, literally since ancient times: the further you dig ...

Scientists find evidence that Earth's core is still leaking hydrogen, helium and tungsten

When Earth first formed, around 4.5 billion years ago, it was an extremely hot, largely molten planet. As it cooled, heavier ...
AOL

Earth’s core is leaking vast amounts of gold through the mantle, study finds

Researchers at Göttingen University have uncovered new evidence that some of Earth's most precious metals began their journey far deeper than once thought. Working with volcanic rocks from ocean ...
CNN

A reservoir of gold lies hidden in Earth’s core. Scientists say it’s leaking

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Gold and other ...
quantamagazine.org

Earth’s Core Appears To Be Leaking Up and Out of Earth’s Surface

All the activity on Earth’s surface — erupting volcanoes, shifting tectonic plates, restless seas and myriad forms of life — depends on the two-part engine under the hood. Directly beneath Earth’s ...
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Earth's Core May Be Wrapped in an Ancient, Unexpected Structure

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A representation of the underground imaging used in the study. (Edward Garnero and Mingming Li/Arizona State University) The ...
Nature

Is Earth’s core leaking? Volcanic rocks provide strongest evidence yet

Samples from Hawaii seem to contain material that passed across the boundary between the planet’s core and its mantle, nearly 3,000 kilometres below the surface. Researchers have been challenging the ...

Six Never-Before-Seen Mystery Structures Found Lurking Deep Inside The Earth

The new map highlights six regions that had been poorly sampled by PKP precursor studies and now appear to be promising targets for closer investigation. They include areas beneath high-latitude ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Earth’s True North and South Poles Have Wandered Four Times Over the Past 320 Million Years, Study Suggests

The phenomenon, which involves the geographic poles, is distinct from when the magnetic poles move. The planet's solid crust ...
Phys.org

Global map catalogs 459 rare continental mantle earthquakes since 1990

Stanford researchers have created the first-ever global map of a rare earthquake type that occurs not in Earth's crust but in our planet's mantle, the layer sandwiched between the thin crust and Earth ...