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 ...

Physicists have successfully created a lab-grown diamond with a hardness exceeding that of natural diamonds. By subjecting ...

A harder form of diamond that has eluded scientists for decades can now be synthesised in the laboratory, and could be used to make extremely tough cutting and drilling tools. Diamonds as we know them ...

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 ...

ANU Associate Professor Jodie Bradby said her team – including ANU PhD student Thomas Shiell and experts from RMIT, the University of Sydney and the United States – made nano-sized Lonsdaleite, which ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

A meteorite from a minor planet was found to include "lonsdaleite," which is thought to be harder than Earth gems. A dwarf planet is a spherical object in space that orbits the sun, although it is ...

Unique structures called diaphites have been found inside the meteorite The meteorite was found in Arizona in 1891 The diamonds had hexagonal crystal structure in contrast to cubic shape A meteorite ...