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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Like a mosquito tunneling into the skin to get at the rich feast within, geologists poked a long, narrow drill into Earth's crust ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The intense heat and pressure at the Earth's core, deep beneath the surface, is enough to make diamonds out of carbon, ...

To understand the mantle—the largest layer of Earth’s rocky body—scientists drill deep cores out of the Earth. Scientists drilled the deepest core yet and recovered serpentinized peridotite that forms ...

A new study claims that Earth is receiving some very valuable gifts from deep under the surface. Analysis of certain lava from Hawaii has shown experts that the stash of precious metals embedded near ...

A sideways flow of hot mantle rock, not a deep plume rising from near Earth’s core, may be feeding one of the planet’s most ...

There’s a special kitchen at the bottom of the sea. Scientists are now closer to reconstructing how it whipped up early life, thanks to a massive 1.2-kilometer core that a ship drilled out from a ...

Back in my day, there were only four layers of Earth: the crust, mantle, liquid outer core and solid inner core. Now, scientists have revealed a new, distinct layer within our planet’s inner core, ...

Geologists have spent decades trying to punch through Earth’s crust to reach the mantle, the vast rocky layer that makes up most of the planet’s volume. In 2023, an international team working from a ...