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

Earth's largest gold reserves are not kept inside Fort Knox, the United States Bullion Depository. In fact, they are hidden ...

The European Space Agency’s ACES mission could ultimately pave the way for a global network of atomic clocks that make these ...

Over 99.99 per cent of the Earth’s deposits of gold and precious metals like Ruthenium lie locked away in its metallic core beneath 3,000km of solid rock and far beyond the reach of humankind.

Using the joint U.S.-Taiwanese COSMIC-2 satellite network, as well as 37 ground-based radars called ionosodes, the team ...

Scientists confirm Zealandia, Earth's eighth continent, submerged almost two million square miles, with only 5% above water.

If Earth stays at its current levels of warming — below policymakers’ goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius — polar ice sheets may melt ...

A few politicians are making news for accepting a once-fringe conspiracy theory that the Earth is flat. Voters aren't ...

On a windswept plateau high above the Arabian Sea, Sena Keybani cradles a sapling that barely reaches her ankle. The young ...