Scanning parks and beaches with one of these can be a unique and fascinating hobby.

I took a metal detector into Walmart to see if I could actually find real gold. It sounds ridiculous, but the results were surprising. This is one of those experiments that shouldn’t work—but might.

A metal detectorist uncovered a rare 19th-century Japanese coin at an Australian Gold Rush campsite near Ballarat, calling the discovery "extremely rare." ...

When actor Charlie Cooper offered to teach a friend metal detecting, he did not expect his pupil to find gold on his first ...

A rare gold Bronze Age ring dating back more than 3,000 years has been declared treasure following a Norfolk inquest.