In a recent review article published in the journal Minerals, researchers focused on the recent discoveries of high-pressure ...

The material withstands 58 percent more stress than diamonds, and could have "remarkable mechanical properties".

Subsequent x-rays showed that the stone was riddled with microscopic diamonds, the hardest substance known. The scientists theorized that the meteorite's diamonds were born during a cataclysmic ...

Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...

Many of the meteoritic fragments around Arizona's Meteor Crater (and also three other meteorites) contain bits of diamond. These inclusions provide information on the history of the meteorites ...

They’re very rare: “with only about 300 pallasites out of more than 60,000 recognized meteorites, they are even rarer than diamonds,” points out the UK’s National Space Centre. But somehow ...

Some investments are “quite literally out of this world”, said ITV. Last week at Sotheby’s Dubai, a 555.55 carat black diamond called “The Enigma” was unveiled and it will become the ...

Indeed, upmarket Muonionalusta meteorite jewelry designs incorporating 18-karat gold, diamonds and other luxury materials dominated the booth of the Lausanne, Switzerland-based fine jewelry firm ...

This is a science story of sheer luck. A meteorite made “auditory history” in July 2024 when a Ring doorbell camera captured footage of the space rock impacting just outside a door.