A groundbreaking discovery has left the scientific community buzzing: a new planet may be covered in diamonds. This celestial ...

Diamonds may be the hardest naturally occurring substance on Earth, but space diamonds could be harder. Lonsdaleite, named after Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, a crystallographer and first woman fellow ...

The enigmatic allure of Neptune has long captivated astronomers and scientists alike, with recent studies suggesting the ...

New research led by Yale University scientists suggests that a rocky planet twice Earth’s size orbiting a nearby star is a diamond planet. “This is our first glimpse of a rocky world with a ...

Scientists at Yale University have discovered a nearby super-Earth that is a "diamond planet" -- a planet that has a mantle made of graphite and diamond.

Science Hubble probes atmosphere on 'diamond planet' Using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers analyze the atmosphere of a super-Earth for the very first time.

Rare hexagonal diamonds known as lonsdaleite found only in meteorites may have originated from a dwarf planet's collision billions of years ago.

A couple of new exoplanets are leaving researchers scratching their heads in confusion. So bright, so vivid! So prismatic! A planet called WASP-12b is the first planet that's been found to have more ...