Imagine standing beneath a sky where diamonds, not raindrops, fall silently through dense clouds. It may sound like science fiction, but for distant planets it could be a reality. Scientists believe ...

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 believe that Neptune and Uranus could both be home to a constant stream of "diamond rain". The two planets are considered "ice giants". They're mostly made of water, methane, and ammonia, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The diamond rain is one of the most fascinating mysteries of space. It sounds like a fantasy story, but scientists believe this happens on planets like Neptune and Uranus. These two gas giants are ...

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 ...

Gemstones might not seem so valuable if they literally rained from the sky, but that's thought to be a common weather pattern on ice giant planets. Now scientists at the SLAC National Accelerator ...

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 ...

Diamond rain on Uranus and Neptune: Recent research suggests that extreme pressures and temperatures deep within Uranus and Neptune create conditions where carbon atoms crystallize into diamonds, ...