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![An illustration shows the collision of two neutron stars. Scientists had proposed that such collisions might have filled our solar system with gold, but new research casts doubt on that claim.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/DpBeeMYCaZzGWnszdmDE3K-320-80.jpg)
There’s too much gold in the universe. No one knows where it came from.
By Rafi Letzter published
Something is showering gold across the universe. But no one knows what it is, and key theoretical explanations are falling apart
![A color-coded gravity image of the Ora Banda Impact Crater site. The crater (deep blue) is in the middle of the image.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/j838DZF8HeQh3wfaeQ9wyH-320-80.jpg)
Gold miners discover 100 million-year-old meteorite crater Down Under
By Laura Geggel published
About 100 million years ago, a gigantic meteorite collided with Australia, creating a 3-mile-wide impact crater.
![Youths found an 1,100-year-old gold hoard during an excavation in Israel.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Ng8PTRt94AtAHvfp7FJKzZ-320-80.jpg)
Stash of pure, 24-karat gold coins unearthed in Israel
By Laura Geggel published
All that protected this jar of gold was a nail and a good hiding spot.
![There might be billions of dollars worth of treasure stolen by the Nazis under a 16th century palace in southwestern Poland.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/DXwHL2FdNGfePjW7HBgbRE-320-80.jpg)
Nazi diary reveals secret location of WWII treasure under a palace in Poland
By Mindy Weisberger published
A long-hidden diary written by a Nazi officer may point to the location of a treasure stash that includes more than 30 tons of buried gold.
![Yamashita's buried hoard of gold and other valuables, if it exists, is reported to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars today.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/RTpgRXDBwDxoeGhcmWnFUG-320-80.jpg)
Treasure hunters search for fabled gold on Philippines island. Hoard may not even exist.
By Tom Metcalfe published
Excavations by treasure hunters searching for a hoard of gold in the Philippines, said to have been hidden by a Japanese World War II general, are threatening to cause landslides in a remote village.
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Bizarre 'Nanoseaweed' Is the Thinnest Gold in the World
By Brandon Specktor published
The thinnest gold in the world will, sadly, not be adorning your fingers anytime soon.
![To figure out the structure of gold at extreme conditions, researchers hit the gold with x-rays and detected where they bounced off (the signals for the different structures can be seen in this image).](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/rzUj38M5XY5Xzo6nKcYsYe-320-80.jpg)
Completely New Form of Gold Created
By Yasemin Saplakoglu published
Gold rearranges its atoms and forms a previously unknown structure.
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This Fungus Mines For Gold, Then Wears It
By Mindy Weisberger published
Silence is golden. In Australia, so is the fungus.
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