The diamond rain is one of the most fascinating mysteries of space. It sounds like a fantasy story, but scientists believe this happens on planets like Neptune and Uranus. These two gas giants are ...

SLAC’s X-ray laser and Matter in Extreme Conditions instrument allow researchers to examine the exotic precipitation in real-time as it materializes in the laboratory Earlier experiments that ...

Billions of planets throughout the universe have sparkling diamond ‘rain’ forming in their atmospheres, researchers have said. The researchers used plastic to recreate precipitation believed to form ...

In one of its most puzzling observations to date, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed an exoplanet so bizarre it challenges the foundations of planetary science. Known as PSR ...

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It sounds like something straight out of a big-budget sci-fi film, but the idea of diamonds falling from the sky is actually a very real phenomenon on some of our neighbouring planets. While we’re ...

(Nanowerk News) An international team of researchers led by Mungo Frost from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California and including DESY scientists used the European X-ray free-electron ...

In this episode of Tiny Show and Tell Us, we tackle the debate surrounding whether or not it rains diamonds on Saturn. Then we talk about how UV degradation can break down some of the harmful residual ...