"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." Scientists have recreated conditions on Neptune and Uranus in a lab at Stanford’s SLAC National ...

Diamond rain falls on ice giants Uranus and Neptune, where intense pressure and heat transform methane into crystallizing diamonds. Scientists recreat ...

Can you imagine how beautiful it might be to witness snow falling on the rust-colored surface of Mars or a steady rain of glittering diamonds on blue Neptune? No, these aren't images from Prince or ...

We might have been very wrong about exactly what lurks below the tranquil blue and green surfaces of Uranus and Neptune. Previous theories have suggested a range of hidden properties of the two ...

Menlo Park, Calif. — A new study has found that “diamond rain,” a long-hypothesized exotic type of precipitation on ice giant planets, could be more common than previously thought. In an earlier ...

Imagine a place where it rains diamonds; not water, not snow, actual diamonds falling from the sky! It sounds like a fantasy story, but scientists believe this happens on planets like Neptune and ...

Scientists speculated that diamond rain may be falling more frequently on planets throughout the universe after simulating the bizarre precipitation thought to originate deep inside Uranus and Neptune ...

(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 ...

Scientists have turned plastic into diamonds. Using high-powered lasers, the team zapped samples of PET, the common material used in plastic bottles, to produce intense heat and pressure to form tiny ...

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 ...