Uranus and Neptune, the icy giant planets of the Solar System, have an atmosphere rich in carbon molecules like methane. The extreme pressure the atmospheres experience suggests that diamonds could ...

The first time and only time I’ve been to the United States was when I carried out a summer placement at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. To get there, I had to have an interview at the U.S.

Diamond rain falls on ice giants Uranus and Neptune, where intense pressure and heat transform methane into crystallizing diamonds. Scientists recreate these conditions in labs, discovering ...

"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 ...

You may have heard that icy planets like Neptune and Uranus experience diamond rain. But now, scientists have been able to mimic conditions of those planets and observe diamond rain at the SLAC ...

The universe is stranger than you can imagine, and out in the depths of space, there are wild and weird exoplanets to be found — planets with glowing rivers of lava, or planets under gravitational ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Deep inside giant icy planets like Uranus and Neptune, the freezing temperatures and extreme pressures combine to form some strange weather patterns. For instance, a few thousand miles below the ...