Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Diamonds ...

Researchers theorize that, under the right conditions, carbon-rich exoplanets could generate huge quantities of diamonds beneath their surface. The recipe including heat, pressure, carbon, water, and ...

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. The planet, called 55 Cancri e, is just 40 ...

Informed by science from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and astronomers worldwide, this “documentary that you can walk through” visualizes the cosmos in a 3-D introduction to the universe ...

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 ...

Rain is usually made of water, but elsewhere in the Solar System the weather can be unimaginably different. Scientists from ...

Astronomers have spotted a planet that appears to be made of a diamond orbiting around a tiny star. The planet, which is 4,000 light years away, is denser than any other known and is made of mostly ...

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.