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 ...
An exoplanet located 2,000 light years from Earth is so unusual it’s given astronomers the idea that it could be a totally ...
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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 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 ...
Diamonds, the saying goes, are a girl's best friend and Jupiter and Saturn just might be filled to the brim with them, scientists say. Chunks of diamonds may be floating in hydrogen and helium fluid ...
Following up on a long-held theory that intense pressure within the ice giants of our solar system could lead to "diamond rain," researchers were able to simulate the conditions they believe exist ...
Diamonds, the saying goes, are a girl's best friend and Jupiter and Saturn just might be filled to the brim with them, scientists say. Chunks of diamonds may be floating in hydrogen and helium fluid ...
(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 ...
That's some dazzling weather. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The ice giants Uranus and Neptune don't get nearly enough press; ...
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 ...
He had almost reached the center of the planet, but Jupiter had one more surprise in store,” Arthur C. Clarke wrote in his novel 2010: Odyssey Two. “There, by one of Nature’s supreme jests, was ...