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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Deep with frozen planets like Neptune and Uranus exotic diamond rains could occur more often than previously believed. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

(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 ...

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Alien weather can get intense. On Neptune and Uranus, for example, the skies rain literal diamonds. Gravitational forces on these ice giants can become so strong, they pressurize carbon into solid ...