If you were to slice through it, you would see the Earth is divided into distinct layers. On top is the relatively thin crust where we live. Beneath that is the 2,900 km thick mantle layer. Then, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists using an ocean drilling vessel have dug the deepest hole ever in rock from Earth's mantle - penetrating 4,160 feet (1,268 meters) below the Atlantic seabed - and ...

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 ...

Earth's core holds far more gold than anyone can reach. More than 99.999 per cent of the planet's stores of gold and other precious metals lie buried under 3,000 kilometres of solid rock, locked away ...

Scientists aboard IODP Expedition 399 developed and validated a rigorous workflow for retrieving contamination-free hard rock ...

A record-breaking 1268-meter drill core into Earth’s mantle, collected from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the North Atlantic, has provided a deep and detailed mineralogical glimpse of the oceanic mantle.

To learn about how rocks and minerals get pushed from the Earth's mantle to the seafloor, scientists drilled a really, really deep hole. Reading time 3 minutes Rock at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean ...

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 ...