The mystery of the diamond-containing meteorites found across the world has finally been solved. Scientists from RMIT and Monash University in Australia have discovered that the diamonds were formed ...

A collection of 18 rare diamond-bearing meteorites from around the world came from an ancient dwarf planet that smashed into a giant asteroid 4.5 billion years ago, according to new research. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lonsdaleite was found in so-called “ureilite meteorites”, an unusual type of stony space rock believed to have originated in the mantle of a destroyed inner solar system dwarf planet. Ureilites tend ...

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Australian scientists have discovered strangely folded diamonds in rare meteorite samples. In investigating how they came to form, the team found evidence that they were forged in a cataclysm on an ...

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 ...

Diamonds created by an interstellar collision of a dwarf planet and an asteroid could lead to the development of new super-hard materials for tools and production, researchers say. Rare lonsdaleite ...

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Chinese scientists have synthesized a "super diamond" that is 40 percent harder than natural diamonds and exhibits high thermal stability, a breakthrough that could enhance the performance of ...

A big asteroid impact is one of nature’s more terrifying events. A chunk of rock and metal comes screaming out of the sky, slamming into the ground 20 times faster than a rifle bullet, exploding with ...