On Jupiter and Saturn, half-inch diamonds fall from the atmosphere like rain. No, this writer isn't enjoying a particularly opulent LSD trip: New research by a NASA scientist says that up to 1,000 ...

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The skies of icy planets across the cosmos may be full of diamonds. Compressed carbon compounds can turn into diamonds at less extreme temperatures than researchers thought were required, which may ...

SLAC’s X-ray laser and Matter in Extreme Conditions instrument allow researchers to examine the exotic precipitation in real-time as it materializes in the laboratory Earlier experiments that ...

Diamond rain falls on ice giants Uranus and Neptune, where intense pressure and heat transform methane into crystallizing ...

Imagine a place where it rains diamonds; not water, not snow, actual diamonds falling from the sky! It sounds like a fantasy story, but scientists believe this happens on planets like Neptune and ...

On some, whipping winds send a rain of glass flying sideways; others have a core of carbon compressed into diamond. Take a ...

Not all of the solar system’s building blocks formed simultaneously. Some of the first solid bodies, or planetesimals, formed ...

Jupiter was shaping Earth's fate before our planet even existed, carving gaps in the early solar system that kept its ...

In what can only be described as an astonishing breakthrough, astronomers have pinpointed a world of unimaginable heat, where the atmospheric conditions could theoretically conjure storms of diamonds.

We might have been very wrong about exactly what lurks below the tranquil blue and green surfaces of Uranus and Neptune. Previous theories have suggested a range of hidden properties of the two ...