Scientists have detected the presence of a rare "folded diamond" that arrived on Earth from outer space via an asteroid. The material found is known as lonsdaleite, and like a diamond, it's made out ...
Scientists have created the first sizable meteorite diamond — also known as lonsdaleite or hexagonal diamond — a material predicted to be even harder than the diamonds normally found on Earth. The ...
A mystery that puzzled scientists for more than half a century may finally have an answer. The strange crystals hidden in a famous Arizona meteorite have now been recreated in a lab, and they could ...
Scientists have discovered that an ancient "catastrophic collision" between a dwarf planet and an asteroid is responsible for the creation of a rare and mysterious cosmic gem. The findings, published ...
New research indicates that a rare form of diamond may originate in the burbling cores of distant worlds, arriving on Earth thanks to violent cosmic collisions. According to a team of scientists in ...
In 1967, a hexagonal form of diamond, later named lonsdaleite, was identified for the first time inside fragments of the Canyon Diablo meteorite, the asteroid that created the Barringer Crater in ...
In brief: Chinese researchers have developed a synthetic diamond that is significantly harder and more resilient than those that occur naturally here on Earth. If commercially viable, the new diamond ...